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This is a summary of 1923 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
- 12 June – William Walton's Façade, a collaboration with Edith Sitwell, is given its first public performance at the Aeolian Hall, London.[1] The critics' reception is unfavourable.[2]
- 4 July – Ralph Vaughan Williams's English Folk Song Suite is premièred at Kneller Hall, conducted by Hector Adkins.[3]
- September–October – Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock) and E. J. Moeran tour East Anglia in search of original folk music.
- 11 November – The première of John Foulds's A World Requiem is held at the Royal Albert Hall in London, with soloists including Herbert Heyner.[4] It is repeated on that date each year until 1926.
- 23 December – The Beggar's Opera by John Gay and Dr Pepusch, with score restored by Frederic Austin, ends its record run of 1,463 performances at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith; Austin himself plays Peachum, with Frederick Ranalow as Macheath and Sylvia Nelis as Polly.
- date unknown
Classical music: new works
Opera
Musical theatre
Births
Deaths
- 18 January – Kate Santley, German-born actress, singer and comedian (exact age unknown)
- 10 July – Albert Chevalier, actor, singer, songwriter and music hall performer, 62[14]
- 27 August – Letty Lind, singer and burlesque performer, 61[15]
- 12 October – John Cadvan Davies, poet and hymn-writer, 77[16]
- date unknown – Nicholas Kilburn, choral conductor and composer, 80[17]
See also
References
- ^ Kennedy, Michael. "Walton, Sir William Turner (1902–1983)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, May 2008, retrieved 27 September 2010 (subscription required)
- ^ "Futuristic Music and Poetry", The Manchester Guardian, 13 June 1923, p. 3
- ^ Timothy Reynish, notes for British Wind Band Classics, Chandos Records 9697, 1999 – PDF Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Cover of programme reproduced in Chandos CD booklet.
- ^ Knight, Peter, ed. (1996). Scottish Country Dancing. Collins. ISBN 0-00-472500-X.
- ^ Hennessy, Brian 2005 The Emergence of Broadcasting in Britain. Devon Southerleigh
- ^ Reed, W.H. (1946). Elgar. London: Dent. p. 134. OCLC 8858707.
- ^ Obituary, The Times, 29 March 1975, p. 14
- ^ Lewis, Geraint. "Tippett, Sir Michael Kemp". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online edition. Retrieved 22 August 2013. (subscription required)
- ^ "Finzi, Gerald: A Severn Rhapsody op. 3 (1923)". Boosey & Hawkes. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
- ^ Smythe, David K.,The Fuchsia Tree, The Lied, Art Song, and Choral Texts Archive, Access date: 6 June 2012
- ^ Head, Raymond (July 1999). "The Hymn of Jesus: Holst's Gnostic Exploration of Time and Space". Tempo. New Series. 209 (1576). Musical Times Publications Ltd.: 7–13. JSTOR 957953.
- ^ Morley, Sheridan. Coward, p. 27, Haus, 2005 ISBN 1-904341-88-8
- ^ Burns Mantle; John Arthur Chapman; Garrison P. Sherwood; Louis Kronenberger (1924). Burns Mantle Yearbook. Dodd, Mead. p. 457.
- ^ Who's who in the Theatre. Pitman. 1930. p. 1432.
- ^ Edward Tegla Davies. "Davies, John Cadvan (Cadvan; 1846-1923), Wesleyan minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
- ^ Robert Evans; Maggie Humphreys (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 196. ISBN 978-1-4411-3796-8.
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