1915 in British music

none 1915 1915 British music This is a summary of 1915 in music in the United Kingdom. Events March – The Musical Times publishes an appreciation of Frederick Delius by the composer Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine). Some Notes on Delius and His Music Heseltine Philip 909510 The Musical Times 137–42 March 1915 56 865 10.2307/909510 https://zenodo.org/record/1450006 December – Having been invalided out of the armed forces, composer Havergal Brian and his family move to Erdington, Warwickshire. date unknown Composer Herbert Howells is given six months to live, and becomes the first person in the UK to receive radium treatment (he will live on until 1983).Paul Spicer 1998 Herbert Howells Seren Bridgend 1-85411-233-3 44 William Penfro Rowlands's hymn tune "Blaenwern" is first published in Henry H. Jones' Cân a Moliant. The Band of the Welsh Guards is formed, simultaneously with the establishment of the regiment.http://military-bands.co.uk/welsh_guards.html Unofficial history of Welsh Guards band 2008-05-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20080514194112/http://military-bands.co.uk/welsh_guards.html 14 May 2008 live Popular music Albert William Ketèlbey – "In a Monastery Garden" T. W. Conner – "A Little Bit of Cucumber"Peter Gammond (1971), Your Own, Your Very Own!: A Music Hall Scrapbook. London: Ian Allan George Henry Powell & Felix Powell – "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag" Classical music: new works Granville Bantock – Hebridean Symphony Frank Bridge – Lamenthttps://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/articles/classical-music World War One and Classical Music Kate Kennedy 29 January 2014 British Library 16 June 2018 Dora Bright – A Dancer's Adventure (ballet) Frederick Delius – Double Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra Edward Elgar – Incidental music for The Starlight ExpressMcVeagh, Diana, "Elgar, Edward". Grove Music Online. Accessed 20 April 2010 Gustav Holst – Japanese Suite John Ireland – Preludes for Piano Percy Pitt Sakura suite No. 2 (Suite de Ballet) Ballet Egyptien Suite pour petite orchestre Opera Rutland Boughton – BethlehemLiner notes to Hyperion Records, Russell Boughton, The Immortal Hour Musical theatre 24 April – Betty, with lyrics by Adrian Ross and music by Paul Rubens, opens at Daly's Theatre, starring Winifred Barnes.http://www.overthefootlights.co.uk/London%20Musicals%201915-1919.pub.pdf London Musicals 1915–1919 Over The Footlights 8 September 2017 19 April 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160419103936/http://www.overthefootlights.co.uk/London%20Musicals%201915-1919.pub.pdf dead 28 April – Tonight's the Night, with lyrics by Percy Greenbank and music by Paul Rubens, opens at Daly's Theatre, featuring George Grossmith and Leslie Henson. Births 11 January – Harry Lewis, musician and composer (died 1998) 25 January – Ewan MacColl, folk singer and songwriter (died 1989) 4 February – Norman Wisdom, comedian, singer and actor (died 2010) 10 March – Charles Groves, conductor (died 1992) 19 March – Nancy Evans, operatic mezzo-soprano (died 2000)Daily Telegraph, "Nancy Evans", 24 August 2000 Kennedy, Michael and Bourne, Joyce (eds.), "Evans, Nancy", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press, 2007. 978-0-19-920383-3 25 March – Dorothy Squires, singer (died 1998) 29 March – George Chisholm, jazz trombonist and comedian (died 1997) 26 August – Humphrey Searle, composer (died 1982) 28 November – Pamela Harrison, pianist and composer (died 1990) Deaths 15 January – Florence Everilda Goodeve, composer and lyricist, 53https://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&dq=Florence+Everilda+Goodeve+%281861%E2%80%931915%29&pg=PA193 The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers Julie Anne Sadie Rhian Samuel 1994 9780393034875 14 December 2010 4 June – William Denis Browne, pianist, organist and composer, 26 (killed in action)http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/56650 Browne, William Charles Denis (1888–1915) Rhian Davies 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/56650 2007-11-09 subscription 6 June – William Hayman Cummings, tenor, organist and composer, 83The Times, Monday, Jun 07, 1915; Issue 40874; pg. 12; col F — Death Of Dr. Cummings. Singer, Conductor, And Composer 10 December – David Jenkins, composer, 66 See also 1915 in the United Kingdom References nb British Music, 1915 in Music Category:British music by year Category:1910s in British music