1914 in British music

none 1914 1914 British music This is a summary of 1914 in music in the United Kingdom. Events 21 January – Edward Elgar makes the first recordings of his music, including the miniature "Carissima" prior to its public premiere.https://www.classicalsource.com/article/feature-review-elgar-conducts-elgar-the-complete-recordings-1914-1925-new-transfers-from-elgars-personal-record-library-music-arts/ Quentin James Feature Review: Elgar conducts Elgar – The complete recordings, 1914-1925 Classical Source 17 January 2012 2022-12-28 February – Regal Recordings issues its first records. 2 February – The restrictions on performances of Wagner's opera Parsifal outside of Bayreuth having been withdrawn, the first staged British performance opens at London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.Parsifal at Covent Garden in 1914 Monsalvat https://www.monsalvat.no/parsifal-england-1914.htm 2023-05-21 27 February – George Butterworth's The Banks of Green Willow is premièred at West Kirby, Liverpool, conducted by Adrian Boult. 16 March – A new concert hall, the Usher Hall, opens in Edinburgh. c. June – First publication of Orchestration, the classic book by Cecil Forsyth. 26 August – Rutland Boughton's "fairy opera" The Immortal Hour is premièred at Glastonbury Assembly Rooms as part of the inaugural Glastonbury Festival, co-founded by the socialist composer.Hurd Michael Hurd (composer) Michael 1983 Rutland Boughton (1878–1960), The Immortal Hour Hyperion https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/al.asp?al=CDD22040 2014-09-01 On 5 August the first concert concluded with the choral song "The Last Post" by Charles Villiers Stanford in lieu of the Grail Dance from Parsifal "owing to the outbreak of war."Glastonbury Musical Festival Central Somerset Gazette Glastonbury 7 August 1914 5 24 October – Italian-born Welsh-resident operatic soparano Adelina Patti gives her final public performance, in a Red Cross concert for the benefit of First World War veterans, at London's Royal Albert Hall.Metropolitan Gossip – The King and Queen at a Patriotic Concert The Grantham Journal 31 October 1914 5 31 December – English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, aged 42, volunteers for war service, initially as a private with the Royal Army Medical Corps.Stephen Connock The Edge of Beyond Journal of the RVW Society 16 October 1999 3–6 Popular music Paul Rubens – "Your King and Country Want You" Classical music: new works Kenneth J. Alford – Colonel Bogey March Granville Bantock – The Song of Liberty Frederick Delius – Violin Sonata No. 1 Edward Elgar – "The Shower" and "The Fountain", SATB unacc., words by Henry Vaughan, Op. 71 Nos.1 and 2 Herbert Howells – Piano Concerto No. 1 Roger Quilter – A Children's Overture Ralph Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending (original version completed) Symphony No. 2, A London Symphony Opera Rutland Boughton – The Immortal Hour (see Events) Musical theatre 4 November – Revival of The Earl and the Girl by Seymour Hicks, with lyrics by Percy Greenbank and music by Ivan Caryll, at the Aldwych Theatre."The Theatrical Week", The Times, 8 February 1915, p. 10 Births 11 March – William Lloyd Webber, organist and composer (died 1982) 24 May – Harry Parr Davies, composer and songwriter (died 1955) 23 August – Harold Truscott, composer, pianist, broadcaster and writer on music (died 1992) 14 December – Rosalyn Tureck, pianist (died 2003) Deaths 7 January – Patrick Weston Joyce, historian and musicologist, 86 23 July – Harry Evans, conductor and composer, 41 13 September – Robert Hope-Jones, inventor of the theatre organ, 55 (suicide)"Death of Robert Hope-Jones" (19 September 1914) Music Trade Review See also 1914 in the United Kingdom References nb British Music, 1914 in Music Category:British music by year Category:1910s in British music