1929 in British music

none 1929 1929 British music This is a summary of 1929 in music in the United Kingdom. Events 22 January – Gordon Jacob's First String Quartet is premiered by the Spencer Dyke Quartet in London. 13 June – Eugene Goossens conducts the UK premiere of Ottorino Respighi's Feste Romane, at the Queen's Hall, London. 27 June – First London performances of two ballets by Igor Stravinsky, Apollon musagète and Le baiser de la fée, conducted by the composer at the Kingsway Hall and broadcast on the wireless. 4 October – Beethoven’s complete Ninth Symphony (with full chorus) is performed at the Proms for the first time since 1902. It has become a regular annual fixture of the festival ever since.BBC Proms Performance Archive 12 October – Sir Thomas Beecham, supported by Peter Warlock, launches a six-day festival of the work of Frederick Delius, at the Queen's Hall in London. The composer attends in his wheelchair. The Published Writings of Philip Heseltine on Delius http://www.delius.org.uk/images/journals/pdfs/journal94t.pdf The Delius Society Journal 94 Autumn 1987 2015-07-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20150923213430/http://www.delius.org.uk/images/journals/pdfs/journal94t.pdf 2015-09-23 dead October – George Formby has a recording session with Dominion Records. date unknown Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly form their music publishing company as a result of the success of their song "Show Me the Way to Go Home". Ray Noble becomes leader of the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra, an His Master's Voice studio band featuring members of many of the top hotel orchestras of the day. Will Fyffe participates in a screen test, shot for Pathe in New York; it provides rare screen footage of his music hall act. Popular music "Dear Little Cafe" w.m. Noël Coward "I Lift Up My Finger (and I Say "Tweet Tweet")" w.m. Leslie Sarony "Spread a Little Happiness" w.m. Vivian Ellis, recorded by Binnie Hale Classical music: new works Kenneth J. Alford Old Panama HM Jollies Arnold Bax – Symphony No. 3 Benjamin Britten – Rhapsody for String Quartet22980 Benjamin Britten: Rhapsody for String Quartet Alan Bush – Dialectic Op. 15 for string quartethttp://www.alanbushtrust.org.uk/articles/article_rohiggins2.asp?room=Articles Rhapsody in Red (about Bush's Dialectic, and other things) January 6, 2009 Frederick Delius – CynaraBeecham Thoma Thomas Beecham Frederick Delius Severn House Sutton, Surrey 1975 0-7278-0099-X 203 David John de Lloyd – Forty Welsh Traditional Tunes (arrangements) John Ireland – Ballad William Walton – Viola Concerto Opera Ralph Vaughan Williams – Sir John in Love Musical theatre 12 July – Bitter Sweet, by Noël Coward, opens at His Majesty's Theatre. Musical films Auld Lang Syne, starring Sir Harry Lauder and Dorothy Boyd (silent film with soundtrack added later)Paul Matthew St. Pierre Music Hall Mimesis in British Film, 1895–1960: On the Halls on the Screen 42 Fairleigh Dickinson University Press New Jersey April 1, 2009 978-1611473995 The Broken Melody, starring Enid Stamp Taylor (silent film with soundtrack added later)British Film Institute http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b793af196 The Broken Melody 2013-01-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20120905014243/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b793af196 2012-09-05 dead Births 5 January – Norman Kay, composer (died 2001)30 May 2001 Norman Kay obituary The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/may/30/guardianobituaries1 22 February 2010 28 January – Acker Bilk, jazz clarinetist and band leader (died 2014)Leigh Spencer Acker Bilk: Clarinettist and bandleader who became best known for his sweetly melancholic 'Stranger on the Shore' https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/acker-bilk-clarinettist-and-bandleader-who-became-best-known-for-his-sweetly-melancholic-stranger-on-the-shore-9836623.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/acker-bilk-clarinettist-and-bandleader-who-became-best-known-for-his-sweetly-melancholic-stranger-on-the-shore-9836623.html 2022-05-01 subscription live 4 November 2014 The Independent 4 November 2014 14 February – Wyn Morris, conductor (died 2010) 25 February – Sandy Brown, Scottish clarinetist (died 1975) 5 April – Joe Meek, record producer (died 1967) 6 April – Edmund Percey, architect and jazz pianist (died 2014) 11 May – Stan Kane, Scottish-Canadian actor and singer (died 2015) 13 June – Alan Civil, horn player (died 1989)The Horn Call https://books.google.com/books?id=aNoIAQAAMAAJ 1991 International Horn Society 39 9 July – Alex Welsh, Scottish singer, cornetist, and trumpeter (died 1982) 2 August – Roy Crimmins, trombonist and composer (died 2014) 5 August – John Armatage, drummer and arranger 11 August – Alun Hoddinott, composer (died 2008) 20 September – Joe Temperley, jazz saxophonist (died 2016) 2 October – Kenneth Leighton, pianist and composer (died 1988) 4 November – Dickie Valentine, singer (died 1971) 11 December – Kenneth MacMillan, ballet dancer and choreographer (died 1992) date unknown – Maurice Handford, horn player (died 1986)Music and Musicians 35 1987 45 Obituaries Maurice Handford : A Personal Tribute – The premature death of the conductor Maurice Handford, at the age of 57, has left the musical world a good deal the poorer. Those of us who were privileged to know him as a friend are ... Deaths 12 February – Lillie Langtry, singer and actress, 75Dudley Ernest The Gilded Lily 1958 Oldhams Press London 219–220 22 August – Lucy Broadwood, folk song collector and researcher, 71https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/e44bc842-b5cc-4218-8917-9dc0d560d2e4 Lucy Etheldred Broadwood (1858–1929) National Archives 26 June 2019 7 September – Frederic Weatherly, songwriter, 80Pickles John D., "Weatherly, Frederick Edward (1848–1929)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition, Oxford University Press, September 2004, accessed 29 August 2010. 29 December – Josiah Booth, hymn-writer, 77Maggie Humphreys Robert Evans Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=WSLUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA38 1 January 1997 A&C Black 978-0-7201-2330-2 38 See also 1929 in British television 1929 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1929 References nb British Music, 1929 in Music Category:British music by year Category:1920s in British music