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This is a summary of 1929 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
Popular music
Classical music: new works
Opera
Musical theatre
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Births
- 5 January – Norman Kay, composer (died 2001)[8]
- 28 January – Acker Bilk, jazz clarinetist and band leader (died 2014)[9]
- 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)[10]
- 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)[11]
Deaths
See also
References
- ^ BBC Proms Performance Archive
- ^ "The Published Writings of Philip Heseltine on Delius" (PDF). The Delius Society Journal (94). Autumn 1987. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
- ^ "Benjamin Britten: Rhapsody for String Quartet" (work details) (in French and English). IRCAM.
- ^ "Rhapsody in Red (about Bush's Dialectic, and other things)". Retrieved January 6, 2009.
- ^ Beecham, Thoma (1975). Frederick Delius. Sutton, Surrey: Severn House. p. 203. ISBN 0-7278-0099-X.
- ^ St. Pierre, Paul Matthew (April 1, 2009). Music Hall Mimesis in British Film, 1895–1960: On the Halls on the Screen. New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. p. 42. ISBN 978-1611473995.
- ^ "The Broken Melody". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 2012-09-05. Retrieved 2013-01-01.
- ^ "Norman Kay obituary". The Guardian. 30 May 2001. Retrieved 22 February 2010.
- ^ Leigh, Spencer (4 November 2014). "Acker Bilk: Clarinettist and bandleader who became best known for his sweetly melancholic 'Stranger on the Shore'". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- ^ The Horn Call. International Horn Society. 1991. p. 39.
- ^ "Obituaries". Music and Musicians. Vol. 35. 1987. p. 45.
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 ...
- ^ Dudley, Ernest (1958). The Gilded Lily. London: Oldhams Press. pp. 219–220.
- ^ "Lucy Etheldred Broadwood (1858–1929)". National Archives. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
- ^ Pickles John D., "Weatherly, Frederick Edward (1848–1929)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition, Oxford University Press, September 2004, accessed 29 August 2010. (subscription required)
- ^ Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. A&C Black. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2.
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