1937 in British music

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List of years in British music

This is a summary of 1937 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events[]

  • 24 JanuaryErnest John Moeran completes the revised version of his Symphony in G minor, dedicated to conductor Hamilton Harty.[1]
  • 6 March – Composer Benjamin Britten and his partner, the tenor Peter Pears, meet for the first time, in London.[2]
  • 12 MayWilliam Walton's ceremonial march, "Crown Imperial", originally written for his predecessor, King Edward VIII, is performed for the first time at the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
  • 27 August – Britten's Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge is performed at the Salzburg Festival, conducted by Boyd Neel.[2]
  • 20 December – The Gaumont State Cinema opens in London with Sidney Torch as organist.
  • date unknown
    • Kathleen Ferrier wins the piano and vocal competitions at the Carlisle Festival, and is awarded a special rose bowl as champion of the festival.[3]
    • George Lloyd marries Nancy Juvet. Lloyd suffers from PTSD and later acknowledges that he could not have recovered without Nancy's care.[4]
    • Ukrainian-born pianist Benno Moiseiwitsch takes up British citizenship.

Popular music[]

Classical music: new works[]

Film and Incidental music[]

Musical theatre[]

Musical films[]

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • 22 JanuaryWalter Willson Cobbett, businessman and amateur violinist, editor/author of Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music, 89
  • 10 AprilAlgernon Ashton, pianist and composer, 77
  • 1 MayHerbert Hughes, composer, music critic and collector of folk songs, 54[17]
  • 2 May – Sir Arthur Somervell, composer, 73
  • 23 JulyCharles Henry Mills, composer and music teacher (b. 1873)
  • 25 NovemberLilian Baylis, founder of Sadler's Wells ballet company, 63 (heart attack)[18]
  • 23 DecemberMuriel Foster, contralto, 60[19]
  • 26 December
    • Dan Beddoe, tenor, 74
    • Ivor Gurney, composer and poet, 47 (tuberculosis)[20]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ From Beyond the Stave: The most glorious of English symphonies
  2. ^ a b Mitchell, Donald, ed. (1991). Letters From A Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 1, 1923–39. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-15221X.
  3. ^ Leonard, Maurice (1988). Kathleen: The Life of Kathleen Ferrier, 1912–1953. London: Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-173464-9. pp. 28–30.
  4. ^ Kozinn, Allan (1998-07-10). "George Lloyd, 85, British Symphonic Composer". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-10-22.
  5. ^ Rust, Brian (1973). The complete entertainment discography, from the mid-1890s to 1942. New Rochelle, N.Y: Arlington House. p. 279. ISBN 9780870001505.
  6. ^ Macpherson, Ben (2018). Cultural identity in British musical theatre, 1890-1939 : knowing one's place. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 194. ISBN 9781137598073.
  7. ^ Ratcliffe, Susan (2006). Concise Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. p. 370. ISBN 9780198614173.
  8. ^ Bob McCann (21 December 2009). Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television. McFarland. p. 357. ISBN 978-0-7864-5804-2.
  9. ^ Robert James (15 December 2010). Popular Culture and Working-class Taste in Britain, 1930-39: A Round of Cheap Diversions?. Oxford University Press. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-7190-8025-8.
  10. ^ a b James Monaco (1991). The Encyclopedia of Film. Perigee Books. pp. 287. ISBN 978-0-399-51604-7.
  11. ^ Angus McLaren (16 October 2017). Playboys and Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London. JHU Press. p. 166. ISBN 978-1-4214-2347-0.
  12. ^ Stephen Shafer (2 September 2003). British Popular Films 1929-1939: The Cinema of Reassurance. Routledge. p. 134. ISBN 978-1-134-98837-2.
  13. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-21. Retrieved 2017-08-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  14. ^ Wrench, Nigel (18 July 2008). "Lost tapes of the Dr. Who composer". BBC News. Retrieved 22 July 2008.
  15. ^ Michael Billington (24 April 2016). "Guy Woolfenden obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
  16. ^ Humphreys, Maggie (1997). Dictionary of composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. London Herndon, VA: Mansell. p. 79. ISBN 9780720123302.
  17. ^ "MusicSack". Retrieved 27 August 2010.
  18. ^ Tanitch, Robert, "Olivier". Abbeville Press
  19. ^ Eric Blom, ed., Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed, 1954, Vol. III, p. 455
  20. ^ P. J. Kavanagh (ed.) (2004). Ivor Gurney, Collected poems (reprint ed.). Fyfield Books. ISBN 1-85754-709-8.
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