1924 in British music

none 1924 1924 British music November 2025 This is a summary of 1924 in music in the United Kingdom. Events 13 May – Edward Elgar is appointed Master of the King's Musick in succession to Sir Walter Parratt.The London Gazette, no. 32935, p. 3841, 13 May 1924. Accessed 27 October 2010. date unknown Richard Runciman Terry resigns as organist of Westminster Cathedral because of criticism of his choice of music, "erratic behaviour" and "neglect of duty".Peter Doyle, Westminster Cathedral 1895–1995, London, 1995, p.53 The London Labour Choral Union is launched by Rutland Boughton.https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/the-london-labour-choral-union19241940-a-musical-institution-of-the-left(73c60302-d104-4f48-804b-83c29517c47f).html The London Labour Choral Union,1924–1940: A Musical Institution of the Left. Maria Kiladi Royal Holloway University of London 16 April 2018 Popular music "The Bristol Pageant", w. Frederic Weatherly, m. Hubert Hunt "There's Life In The Old Girl Yet" w.m. Noël Coward "Will You Forgive?", m. Albert Ketèlbey Classical music: new works Gustav Holst – Choral Symphony (premiered in 1925) William Walton – Bucolic Comedies (lost), with words by Edith Sitwell Arthur Wood – My Native Heath (orchestral suite, including the maypole dance "Barwick Green", now famous as the theme to The Archers)Feedback Autumn 2007 BBC Radio 4 2007-10-05 Opera Ralph Vaughan Williams – Hugh the Drover, with libretto by Harold ChildMichael Kennedy, Liner notes to Hyperion recording of Hugh the Drover. Hyperion Records, 1994. Musical theatre Primrose, written for the London stage by Guy Bolton and George Grossmith Jr., with lyrics by Desmond Carter and Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin.Clive Barker Simon Trussler New Theatre Quarterly 37: Volume 10 https://books.google.com/books?id=UtoZmij14FYC&pg=PA33 26 May 1994 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-46656-1 33 Puppets, revue with music by Ivor Novello and others, starring Binnie Hale and Stanley Lupinohttp://guidetomusicaltheatre.com/london_shows_chronology/1924.htm Chronology of London Shows The Guide to Musical Theatre 16 August 2017 Births 8 January – Ron Moody, actor, singer and composer (died 2015) https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jun/11/ron-moody Ron Moody obituary The Guardian 11 June 2015 14 June 2015 Dennis Barker 21 January – Benny Hill, comedian, actor and singer (died 1992) 9 February – George Guest, organist and choirmaster of St John's College, Cambridge (died 2002) 27 February – Trevor Duncan, composer (died 2005) 8 March – Alan Dell, BBC radio DJ (died 1995) 15 April – Sir Neville Marriner, conductor and violinist (died 2016)https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/02/sir-neville-marriner-obituary Potter Tully Amis John Sir Neville Marriner obituary 2 October 2016 The Guardian 2 October 2016. 18 April – Buxton Orr, composer (died 1997) 6 May – Denny Wright, jazz guitarist (died 1992)August 2025 19 May – Sandy Wilson, composer of The Boyfriend (died 2014) 20 May – Syd Dale, composer and arranger of big band, easy listening and library music (died 1994) 1 June – John Tooley, opera director and manager (died 2020) 16 July – Johnny Brandon, singer-songwriter (died 2017)Brandon Johnny https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/One_More_Step/g5oIAQAAMAAJ?hl=en One More Step! 2008 Book Guild 978-1-84624-181-9 en 19 September – Ernest Tomlinson, light music composer (died 2015) Deaths 2 January – Sabine Baring-Gould, hymn-writer and collector of folk songs, 89Sabine Baring-Gould Curious Myths of the Middle Ages https://archive.org/details/curiousmythsmid00barigoog 1978 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-520078-2 15 February – Lionel Monckton, composer, 62Brompton Cemetery website https://web.archive.org/web/20060823091118/http://www.brompton.org/Residents.htm 23 August 2006 18 March – Frederick Bridge, organist and composer, 79Maggie Humphreys Robert Evans Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=WSLUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA42 1 January 1997 A&C Black 978-0-7201-2330-2 42 27 March – Sir Walter Parratt, composer, Master of the King's Musick, 83Stanley Sadie The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians https://books.google.com/books?id=f1MNAQAAIAAJ 1980 Macmillan Publishers 978-0-333-23111-1 241 29 March – Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, composer, 71Rodmell Paul 2002 Charles Villiers Stanford Aldershot Scolar Press 1-85928-198-2 328 5 April – Rosalind Ellicott, composer, 66 Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784–1914 2013 Ashgate Publishing, Ltd 9781409494614 Dr Pippa Drummond 23 June – Cecil Sharp, folk song and dance revivalist, 64 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36040 Sharp, Cecil James Heaney Michael 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/36040 6 August – John Roberts (Pencerdd Gwynedd), organist and composer, 76https://biography.wales/article/s-ROBE-HEN-1848 Roberts, John Henry (Pencerdd Gwynedd; 1848-1924), musician Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales Robert David Griffith 6 January 2019 26 November – Rose Hersee, operatic soprano, 78Rosenthal, Harold. "Hersee, Rose", Grove Music Online accessed 25 May 2009 See also 1924 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1924 References nb British Music, 1924 in Music Category:British music by year Category:1920s in British music