1930 in British music

This is a summary of 1930 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events

• 8 February – Singer Sam Browne makes his first recording with Bert Ambrose's band on Decca. ^[1]
• 5 April – 25-year-old Michael Tippett gives a concert at Oxted consisting entirely of his own works—a Concerto in D for flutes, oboe, horns and strings; settings for tenor of poems by Fry; Psalm in C for chorus and orchestra, again with a text by Fry; piano variations on the song "Jockey to the Fair"; and a string quartet. ^[2]
• 7 June – The Daily Herald reports that Jack Hylton and his band sold nearly four million records in the previous year. ^[3]
• 29 September – Roy Fox gives his first London performance.
• 22 October – The London-based BBC Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert in Queen's Hall, conducted by Adrian Boult. ^[4]
• date unknown
  • The Joe Loss Orchestra is established.
  • Gerald Walcan Bright adopts the name "Geraldo" to further his career as a bandleader. ^[5]
  • Songwriter Fred Godfrey and Irish tenor Tom Finglass form a short-lived variety act.
  • The Dagenham Girl Pipers are established, under the direction of Rev. Joseph Waddington Graves, the minister of Osborne Hall Congregational church. ^[6]

Popular music

• "By the Sleepy Lagoon", by Eric Coates
• "It isnae me", w. Sally Holmes, m. Edward Elgar
• "Someday I'll Find You", by Noël Coward
• "The White Dove" w. Clifford Grey m. Franz Lehár

Classical music: new works

• Kenneth J. Alford – The Standard of St. George
• William Alwyn – Piano Concerto No. 1
• Arnold Bax – Winter Legends
• Arthur Bliss – Morning Heroes (oratorio)
• Edward Elgar – Pomp and Circumstance March No. 5 in C
• Gustav Holst – A Choral Fantasia ^[7]
• John Ireland
  • Legend for piano and orchestra
  • Piano Concerto in E flat
• Peter Warlock – Carillon Carilla

Film and Incidental music

• Ernest Irving – Birds of Prey ^[8]

Musical theatre

• 25 June – The Love Race opens at the Gaiety Theatre where it runs for 237 performances.
• 30 October – Nippy (music by Billy Mayerl; book and lyrics by Arthur Wimperis and Frank Eyton ^[9] ), starring Binnie Hale, ^[10] opens at the Prince Edward Theatre and runs for 137 performances.

Musical films

• Elstree Calling , starring Teddy Brown
• Harmony Heaven , starring Polly Ward
• Just for a Song , starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Roy Royston and Constance Carpenter. ^[11]
• The Nipper , starring Betty Balfour

Births

• 5 January – Saxa, Jamaican-born British saxophonist (died 2017)
• 17 February – Frank Wappat, singer and radio host (died 2014)
• 5 March – Isla Cameron, actress and folk singer (died 1980)
• 10 March – Jimmie Macgregor, folk singer
• 28 March – Elizabeth Bainbridge, operatic soprano
• 17 April – Chris Barber, jazz trombonist (died 2021)
• 4 May – Bill Eyden, jazz drummer (died 2004)
• 8 May – Heather Harper, operatic soprano (died 2019)
• 22 May – Kenny Ball, jazz trumpeter and bandleader (died 2013)
• 28 May – Julian Slade, composer (died 2006)
• 30 May – Gordon Langford, composer and arranger (died 2017) ^[12]
• 1 June – Edward Woodward, actor and singer (died 2009)
• 10 July – Josephine Veasey, mezzo-soprano
• 20 July – Sally Ann Howes, actress and singer
• 27 July – Andy White, Scottish drummer (died 2015)
• 1 August – Lionel Bart, composer and lyricist (died 1999)
• 13 August – Bernard Manning, comedian and singer (died 2007)
• 12 October – Cyril Tawney, singer-songwriter (died 2005)
• 1 November – John Scott, conductor and composer
• 2 November – Peter Hope (also known as William Gardner), composer and arranger ^[13]
• 1 December – Matt Monro, singer (died 1985)

Deaths

• 17 February – Louise Kirkby Lunn, operatic contralto, 56
• 22 June – Mary Davies, singer, 75
• 13 November – Thomas Bulch, British-born Australian composer, 67
• 17 December – Peter Warlock, composer, 36

See also

• 1930 in British television
• 1930 in the United Kingdom
• List of British films of 1930

References

1. Sam Browne Discography, by Barry Wolsey (2nd ed. 2004)
2. • Bowen, Meirion (1983). Michael Tippett . London: Robson Books. ISBN   1-86105-099-2., pp. 19–20
3. Deborah Mawer, "'Parisomania'? Jack Hylton and the French Connection," Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Vol. 133 No. 2 (2008): 271.
4. • Kennedy, Michael (1989). Adrian Boult. London: Macmillan Publishers. ISBN   0-333-48752-4., pp. 144-45
5. "Gerald Walcan Bright". Oxford DNB.
6. Olechnowicz, Andrzej (1997). 'Working-class Housing in England Between the Wars: The Becontree Estate. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 121. ISBN   0-19-820650-X.
7. Short, Michael (1990). Gustav Holst: The Man and his Music. Oxford University Press. ISBN   0-19-314154-X.
8. "Birds of Prey". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on August 20, 2014. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
9. ReadingProgrammes 1927–1933
10. Stock Photography image of Nippy , Music sheet cover for the 1930 music stock photo ^{[ usurped ]}
11. BFI Database entry
12. "Gordon Langford (11 May 1930 – 18 April 2017) - Rhinegold" . Retrieved 26 June 2018.
13. "Brian Kay's Light Programme". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2014.