1919 in British music

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This is a summary of 1919 in music in the United Kingdom.

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

10 March – Margot Fonteyn, born Margaret Hookham, 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)^[10]
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)^[11]

Deaths

20 March – Pauline Markham, vaudeville actress, singer and dancer, 71^[12]
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

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.
^ 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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[1] Jean Moorcroft Wilson (2018). Robert Graves. Bloomsbury. p. 246.

[2] BBC: London – History, "London's jazz legends". Accessed 10 December 2012.

[3] Stevenson, Joseph. "Felix Salmond: Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 23 June 2007.

[4] "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" by Elizabeth M. Knowle, 1999

[5] Liane Curtis (2005). A Rebecca Clarke Reader. The Rebecca Clarke Society, Inc. p. 235. ISBN 978-0-9770079-0-5.

[6] Sullivan, Jack. New World Symphonies: How American Culture Changed European Music. pp. 116, 118.

[7] Mellers, Wifrid (1989). "The Double Man". Vaughan Williams and the Vision of Albion. Barrie & Jenkins. pp. 49–50. ISBN 0-7126-2117-2.

[8] Boyden, Matthew, et al, The Rough Guide to Opera, Rough Guides, 2002. ISBN 978-1-85828-749-2

[9] "London musicals 1915–1919" (PDF). Over the Footlights. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 April 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2017.

[10] Laing, Dave (10 June 2018). "Teddy Johnson obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 June 2018.

[11] Forbes, Elizabeth, Obituary: Charles Craig, The Independent, 25 January 1997

[12] Pauline Markham Dies. New York Times (New York City), March 21, 1919; p. 13

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