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1919 in British music
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This is a summary of
1919 in music
in the
United Kingdom
.
Contents
Events
Popular music
Classical music: new works
Opera
Musical theatre
Births
Deaths
See also
References
Events
April – Poet
Robert Graves
, temporarily living in Wales, asks composer
John Rippiner Heath
to set some of his work to music.
[
1
]
7 April
– The
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
arrives in the UK for a 15-month tour.
22 July
–
Manuel de Falla
's ballet
El sombrero de tres picos
(
The Three-Cornered Hat
) receives its world premiere in
London
, performed by
Ballets Russes
.
19 August
– The
Southern Syncopated Orchestra
, while touring the UK, performs for King
Edward VII of the United Kingdom
.
[
2
]
Ernest Ansermet
's review is considered one of the first serious pieces of
jazz
criticism
.
27 October
–
Edward Elgar
's
Cello Concerto
receives its première in
London
, performed by
Felix Salmond
. The concert goes ahead with inadequate rehearsal time, because of
Albert Coates
, who is conducting the rest of the programme.
[
3
]
Elsie Griffin
joins the
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
.
Popular music
Fred W. Leigh & Charles Collins – "
My Old Man (Said Follow the Van)
"
[
4
]
Classical music: new works
Arnold Bax
–
Tintagel
Rebecca Clarke
–
Viola Sonata
[
5
]
Gustav Holst
–
Ode to Death
[
6
]
Charles Villiers Stanford
–
A Song of Agincourt
Ralph Vaughan Williams
–
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
(revised version)
[
7
]
Opera
Rutland Boughton
–
The Moon Maiden
Frederick Delius
–
Fennimore and Gerda
[
8
]
Musical theatre
22 October
–
Maggie
, with music by
Marcel Lattès
and lyrics by
Adrian Ross
, starring
Winifred Barnes
, opens at the Oxford Theatre, London, where it will run for 108 performances.
[
9
]
Births
25 January
–
Norman Newell
, record producer and lyricist (died 2004)
[
10
]
10 March
–
Margot Fonteyn
, ballerina (died 1991)
13 August
–
George Shearing
, jazz pianist and composer (died 2011)
15 August
–
Bernard Barrell
, musician, music teacher and composer (died 2005)
4 September
–
Teddy Johnson
, popular singer (died 2018)
[
11
]
2 October
John W. Duarte
, writer, guitarist and composer (died 2004)
Sean 'ac Donncha
, Irish traditional singer (died 1996)
11 November
–
Hamish Henderson
, folk song collector (died 2002)
3 December
–
Charles Craig
, operatic tenor (died 1997)
[
12
]
Deaths
20 March
–
Pauline Markham
, vaudeville actress, singer and dancer, 71
[
13
]
2 June
–
Ernest Ford
, conductor and composer, 61
27 September
–
Adelina Patti
, Italian-French opera singer resident in Wales, 76
date unknown
–
Oliveria Prescott
, writer and composer, 75/76
See also
1919 in the United Kingdom
References
↑
Jean Moorcroft Wilson (2018).
Robert Graves
. Bloomsbury. p.
246.
↑
BBC: London – History, "London's jazz legends". Accessed 10 December 2012.
↑
Stevenson, Joseph.
"Felix Salmond: Biography"
.
Allmusic
. Retrieved
23 June
2007
.
↑
"The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" by Elizabeth M. Knowle, 1999
↑
Liane Curtis (2005).
A Rebecca Clarke Reader
. The Rebecca Clarke Society, Inc. p.
235.
ISBN
978-0-9770079-0-5
.
↑
Sullivan, Jack.
New World Symphonies: How American Culture Changed European Music
. pp.
116, 118.
↑
Mellers, Wifrid (1989). "The Double Man".
Vaughan Williams and the Vision of Albion
. Barrie & Jenkins. pp.
49–
50.
ISBN
0-7126-2117-2
.
↑
Boyden, Matthew, et al, The Rough Guide to Opera, Rough Guides, 2002.
ISBN
978-1-85828-749-2
↑
"London musicals 1915–1919"
(PDF)
.
Over the Footlights
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 19 April 2016
. Retrieved
10 September
2017
.
↑
Leigh, Spencer
(7 December 2004).
"Norman Newell"
.
The Independent
. Archived from
the original
on 2025-05-08
. Retrieved
2025-06-02
.
↑
Laing, Dave (10 June 2018).
"Teddy Johnson obituary"
.
The Guardian
. Retrieved
10 June
2018
.
↑
Forbes, Elizabeth,
Obituary: Charles Craig
,
The Independent
, 25 January 1997
↑
Pauline Markham Dies. New York Times (New York City), March 21, 1919; p. 13
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