1917 in British music

none 1917 1917 British music This is a summary of 1917 in music in the United Kingdom. Events January – Morfydd Llwyn Owen makes her professional debut at London's Aeolian Hall.Maddox, B. Freud’s Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones. London: John Murray 2006. p 134 Summer – Composer Arnold Bax and his lover, pianist Harriet Cohen, holiday together in Cornwall.http://www.helen-fry.com/books/musicandmen/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120618060623/http://www.helen-fry.com/books/musicandmen/ dead June 18, 2012 Music & Men: The Life & Loves of Harriet Cohen Helen Fry 16 August 2018 26 November – After several cancellations, Granville Bantock's Tone Poem No. 3, also known as Orchestral Drama: Fifine at the Fair, is finally performed by the Royal Philharmonic Society, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham. date unknown – Under the direction of Rupert D'Oyly Carte, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company makes the first complete recording of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera, The Mikado, for the Gramophone Company (later His Master's Voice). Popular music Edward Elgar and Rudyard Kipling – "The Lowestoft Boat" Bert Lee and R. P. Weston – "Paddy McGinty's Goat" Classical music: new works Kenneth J. Alford On the Quarter Deck, march The Middy, march The Voice of the GunsJeffrey Richards Imperialism And Music: Britain 1876-1953 https://books.google.com/books?id=zSJ7zXkBc3MC&pg=PA431 2001 Manchester University Press 978-0-7190-4506-6 431 Arnold Bax – November Woods"An Arnold-Bax Tone Poem", The Times, 17 December 1920, p. 10 Frank Bridge – Cello Sonata in D minor Rebecca Clarke – Morpheus Frederick Delius – Eventyr (Once Upon a Time) Edward Elgar The Sanguine Fan (ballet) The Spirit of England Gustav Holst – The Hymn of Jesus Charles Villiers Stanford Aviator's Hymn, for tenor, bass, choir, and organ Irish Rhapsody No. 5, in G Minor, for orchestra Night Thoughts, Op. 148, for piano "On Windy Way When Morning Breaks", partsong Sailing Song, partsong, two soprano voices "St George of England", song Scènes de ballet, Op. 150, for piano Sonata No. 1, in F major, Op. 149, for organ Sonata No. 2 ("Eroica"), in G minor, Op. 151, for organ Sonata No. 3 ("Britannica"), in D minor, Op. 152, for organ Musical theatre 10 February – The Maid of the Mountains by Seymour Hicks, with music by Sidney Jones and Paul Rubens, and lyrics by Adrian Ross, starring José Collins, by Harold Fraser-Simson, with additional music by James W. Tate, lyrics by Harry Graham and additional lyrics by Frank Clifford Harris and Valentine, opens at Daly's Theatre, where it runs for 1,352 performances.Cooke, Mervyn. The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-century Opera, p. 296 (2005) Cambridge University Press 0-521-78009-8 14 September – The Boy, by Fred Thompson and Percy Greenbank, with music by Lionel Monckton and Howard Talbot and lyrics by Greenbank and Adrian Ross, opens at the Adelphi Theatre for a run of 801 performances, starring Maisie Gay and Donald Calthrop. Births 25 February – Anthony Burgess, composer and writer (died 1993) 27 February – George Mitchell, founder of the Black and White Minstrels (died 2002) 2 March – John Gardner, composer (died 2011) 20 March – Vera Lynn, singer (died 2020) 23 March – Josef Locke, tenor (died 1999) 29 June – Mary Berry, canoness, choral conductor and musicologist (died 2008) 6 July – Hugo Cole, composer and critic (died 1995) 15 September – Richard Arnell, composer (died 2009) Deaths 25 February – Paul Rubens, composer and songwriter, 41 (tuberculosis)The Times obituary, 6 February 1917, p. 10 7 August – Basil Hood, librettist and lyricist, 53"Captain Basil Hood's Death: Excessive Concentration on Cryptograms", The Times, 11 August 1917; p. 3 11 September – Evie Greene, actress and singer, 42 (Bright's disease)Gordon Williams British Theatre in the Great War: A Revaluation https://books.google.com/books?id=_O1hV2iYZ9gC&pg=PA19 1 October 2003 A&C Black 978-1-84714-128-6 19– See also 1917 in the United Kingdom References nb British Music, 1917 in Music Category:British music by year Category:1910s in British music