1921 in British music

none 1921 1921 British music This is a summary of 1921 in music in the United Kingdom. Events January – Sir Charles Villiers Stanford gives a public lecture entitled "Some Recent Tendencies in Composition", criticising current musical trends.Stanford, Charles Villiers. "On Some Recent Tendencies in Composition", Proceedings of the Musical Association, 47th Sess. (1920–1921), pp. 39–53 5 March – Charles Villiers Stanford makes his last public appearance when he conducts his latest work, the cantata At the Abbey Gate."At the Abbey Gate", The Times, 7 March 1921, p. 8. The Observer thinks it "quite appealing even though one feels it to be more facile than powerful."Anderson, W R. "Yesterday's Music", The Observer London, 6 March 1921, p. 15. 14 June – First performance of the orchestral version of Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending conducted by Adrian Boult with Marie Hall as violin soloist in a concert at the Queen's Hall in London. June – Adrian Boult conducts an experimental Opera Intime week at the Aeolian Hall (London).Boult Adrian My Own Trumpet London Hamish Hamilton 1973 0-241-02445-5 date unknown A new production of The Tempest at the Aldwych Theatre, directed by Viola Tree, adds new incidental music by Arthur Bliss to that by Thomas Arne and Arthur Sullivan.Evans, Edwin. "Arthur Bliss". The Musical Times, February 1923, pp. 95–99, accessed 21 March 2011 The Savoy Havana Band is formed as a resident dance band at the Savoy Hotel, London, by American saxophonist Bert Ralton. Popular music "And Her Mother Came Too": words by Dion Titheradge, music by Ivor NovelloAnastasia Belina Derek B. Scott The Cambridge Companion to Operetta https://books.google.com/books?id=iYK0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA252 30 November 2019 Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-18216-5 252 "Dancing Time": words by George Grossmith, Jr., music by Jerome KernSteven Suskin Show Tunes: The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway's Major Composers https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_usBBxC_TQC&pg=PA24 2000 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-512599-3 24 "Shimmy With Me": words by P. G. Wodehouse, music by Jerome Kern, from the musical The Cabaret Girl Classical music: new works Kenneth J. Alford – The Mad Major Arnold Bax – Mater ora Filium Eric Coates – Moresque John Foulds – A World Requiem (1919–21; premiered 1923)BBC Press Release Albert Ketèlbey Bells Across the Meadows In a Persian Market John Ireland – Two Pieces for Piano Cyril Rootham – Suite in three movements for flute and piano Opera Gustav Holst – Savitri Musical theatre 17 January – The League of Notions London revue opens at the Oxford Theatre. 5 October – The Golden Moth (Music: Ivor Novello) opens at the Adelphi Theatre, starring Bobbie Comber and Thorpe Bates. Publications Porte, J. F. Sir Edward Elgar. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Turner & Co. Ltd. Births 5 February – Sir John Pritchard, conductor (died 1989) 2 March – Robert Simpson, musicologist and composer (died 1997) 21 March – Antony Hopkins, composer and music writer (died 2014) 8 April – Alfie Bass, actor (Tevye in West End production of Fiddler on the Roof) (died 1987)British film and television year book https://books.google.com/books?id=E223AAAAIAAJ 1970 Cinema TV Today 26 23 May – Humphrey Lyttelton, English jazz musician (died 2008) 12 July – Hilary Corke, writer and composer (died 2001) 13 August – Mary Lee, Scottish singer 8 September – Sir Harry Secombe, singer and comedian (died 2001)Harris M. Lentz III Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2001: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture https://books.google.com/books?id=P3nGCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA262 16 April 2002 McFarland 978-0-7864-1278-5 262 21 September – Jimmy Young, singer and radio broadcaster (died 2016)Colin Larkin The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music https://books.google.com/books?id=kGkZAQAAIAAJ 2002 Virgin Books 978-1-85227-937-0 343 2 October – Robert Bruce Montgomery, composer (died 1978) 21 October – Sir Malcolm Arnold, composer (died 2006)Stewart R. Craggs Malcolm Arnold: A Bio-bibliography https://books.google.com/books?id=HNCLqUq4F94C&pg=PA3 1998 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-29254-5 3 Deaths 8 February – George Formby Sr, singer and comedian, 45 (tuberculosis)Mrs George Formby's Own Story The Sunday Post 13 February 1921 Dundee 16 25 February – John Thomas of Llanwrtyd, composer, 81https://biography.wales/article/s-THOM-JOH-1839 Thomas, John Robert David Griffith Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 1959 19 August 2017 14 March – Gustave Barnes, violinist, painter and sculptor, 43Nancy Benko, 'Barnes, Gustave Adrian (1877–1921)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7, MUP, 1979, pp 179–180. 29 November – Ivan Caryll, Belgian-born composer of operettas in English, 60 Gänzl Kurt Ivan Caryll 2001 The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre, Second Edition 327 Schirmer Books 0-02-864970-2 See also 1921 in the United Kingdom References nb British Music, 1921 in Music Category:British music by year Category:1920s in British music