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This is a summary of
1908 in music
in the
United Kingdom
.
Contents
Events
Popular music
Classical music: new works
Opera
Musical theatre
Births
Deaths
See also
References
Events
26 March
– The first public performance of
York Bowen
's
Viola Concerto
is given by
Lionel Tertis
at the
Wigmore Hall
.
[
1
]
31 July
–
Frederick Septimus Kelly
wins a gold medal for Great Britain as a member of the winning crew in the
eights
at the
1908 Summer Olympics
in London.
[
2
]
3 December
–
Edward Elgar
's
Symphony No. 1
receives its première at the
Free Trade Hall
in
Manchester
, performed by the
Hallé Orchestra
and conducted by
Hans Richter
.
[
3
]
7 December
– Four days after its première, Elgar's Symphony No. 1 is performed at the
Queen's Hall
by the
London Symphony Orchestra
, again conducted by Hans Richter.
[
4
]
date unknown
–
Alexander Mackenzie
becomes President of the International Musical Society.
[
5
]
Popular music
"
Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
" ("Kelly from the Isle of Man") by
Clarence Wainwright Murphy
& Will Letters
"
I Hear You Calling Me
" by Harold Lake & Charles Marshall
[
6
]
"The Outlaw" by
William Wallace
Classical music: new works
York Bowen
– Viola Concerto in C minor
Henry Walford Davies
–
Solemn Melody
for organ
Harry Evans
–
Dafydd ap Gwilym
(cantata)
[
7
]
Hamilton Harty
– Violin Concerto
Joseph Hinton
–
L'allegro
Alice Verne-Bredt
–
Phantasie Piano Trio
and
Phantasie Piano Quartet
Opera
A Welsh Sunset
by
Philip Michael Faraday
[
8
]
Musical theatre
25 April
–
Havana
, with book by
George Grossmith, Jr.
and Graham Hill, music by
Leslie Stuart
, lyrics by
Adrian Ross
and additional lyrics by George Arthurs, opens at the
Gaiety Theatre, London
, starring
Evie Greene
,
W. H. Berry
,
Lawrence Grossmith
and
Mabel Philipson
.
[
9
]
3 September
–
King of Cadonia
, with book by
Frederick Lonsdale
, lyrics by
Adrian Ross
and
Arthur Wimperis
and music by
Sidney Jones
and
Frederick Rosse
, opens at the
Prince of Wales Theatre
in
London
, where it runs for 333 performances.
[
10
]
Births
12 January
–
Joan Mary Last
, music educator, author and composer (died
2002
)
[
11
]
28 January
–
Jimmy Shand
, accordionist and bandleader (died
2000
)
29 February
–
A. L. Lloyd
, folk song collector (died 1982)
18 March
–
Ivor Moreton
, singer, composer and pianist (died 1984)
25 March
–
Bridget D'Oyly Carte
, head of D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (died 1985)
10 July
–
Donald Peers
, singer (died 1973)
18 July
–
Barry Gray
, television composer (died
1984
)
19 October
Spike Hughes
, jazz musician, composer and music journalist (died
1987
)
[
12
]
Sydney MacEwan
, singer and priest (died
1991
)
21 October
–
Howard Ferguson
, composer and musicologist (died 1999)
17 December
–
William Brocklesby Wordsworth
, English/Scottish composer and pianist (died 1988)
date unknown
–
Jeannie Robertson
, folk singer (died
1975
)
Deaths
2 March
–
Walter Slaughter
, conductor and composer, 48
12 March
–
Clara Novello
, soprano, 89
See also
1908 in the United Kingdom
References
↑
John France (10 February 2007).
"York Bowen Viola Concerto (1907) The Centenary of a Minor Masterpiece"
.
www.academia.edu
. Retrieved
15 April
2018
.
↑
Frederick Kelly
Archived
1 August 2015 at the
Wayback Machine
. Sports Reference Olympic Sports
↑
Reed, W H. Elgar, J M Dent and Sons Ltd, London, 1943. p 97
↑
Kennedy, Michael.
Elgar Orchestral Music
. BBC Publications, London, 1970. p 53.
↑
"Mackenzie, Sir Alexander Campbell"
,
Who Was Who
, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edition, Oxford University Press, 2007, accessed 28 September 2009
↑
Western Daily Press
, "Romance and Tears of a Famous Ballad, Author of 'Hear You Calling Me' Dead", 5 Aug 1933, p. 9
↑
Lecture on Harry Evans (Merseyside Welsh Heritage Society, November 12th 2011), by Professor Huw Rees, President, Liverpool Welsh Choral Union
↑
Savoy Theatre. "A Welsh Sunset",
The Times
, 18 July 1908, p. 10
↑
Cast and productions details
at
The Play Pictorial
website (1902–1910) of the Templeman Library at the University of Kent at Canterbury
↑
Synopsis, list of roles and list of musical numbers
↑
Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994).
The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers
. Retrieved
30 December
2010
.
↑
Spike Hughes,
Opening Bars – Beginning an Autobiography
(Pilot Press Ltd, London, 1946)
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