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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.[1]
- 5 March – Charles Villiers Stanford makes his last public appearance when he conducts his latest work, the cantata At the Abbey Gate.[2] The Observer thinks it "quite appealing even though one feels it to be more facile than powerful."[3]
- 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).[4]
- date unknown
Popular music
Classical music: new works
Opera
Musical theatre
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)[9]
- 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)[10]
- 21 September – Jimmy Young, singer and radio broadcaster (died 2016)[11]
- 2 October – Robert Bruce Montgomery, composer (died 1978)
- 21 October – Sir Malcolm Arnold, composer (died 2006)[12]
Deaths
See also
References
- ^ Stanford, Charles Villiers. "On Some Recent Tendencies in Composition", Proceedings of the Musical Association, 47th Sess. (1920–1921), pp. 39–53 (subscription required)
- ^ "At the Abbey Gate", The Times, 7 March 1921, p. 8.
- ^ Anderson, W R. "Yesterday's Music", The Observer London, 6 March 1921, p. 15.
- ^ Boult, Adrian (1973). My Own Trumpet. London: Hamish Hamilton. ISBN 0-241-02445-5.
- ^ Evans, Edwin. "Arthur Bliss". The Musical Times, February 1923, pp. 95–99, accessed 21 March 2011 (subscription required)
- ^ Anastasia Belina; Derek B. Scott (30 November 2019). The Cambridge Companion to Operetta. Cambridge University Press. p. 252. ISBN 978-1-107-18216-5.
- ^ a b Steven Suskin (2000). Show Tunes: The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway's Major Composers. Oxford University Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-19-512599-3.
- ^ BBC Press Release
- ^ British film and television year book. Cinema TV Today. 1970. p. 26.
- ^ Harris M. Lentz III (16 April 2002). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2001: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture. McFarland. p. 262. ISBN 978-0-7864-1278-5.
- ^ Colin Larkin (2002). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music. Virgin Books. p. 343. ISBN 978-1-85227-937-0.
- ^ Stewart R. Craggs (1998). Malcolm Arnold: A Bio-bibliography. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-313-29254-5.
- ^ "Mrs George Formby's Own Story". The Sunday Post. Dundee. 13 February 1921. p. 16.
- ^ Robert David Griffith (1959). "Thomas, John". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
- ^ Nancy Benko, 'Barnes, Gustave Adrian (1877–1921)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7, MUP, 1979, pp 179–180.
- ^ Gänzl, Kurt (2001). "Ivan Caryll". The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre, Second Edition. Schirmer Books. p. 327. ISBN 0-02-864970-2.
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