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Overview of the events of 1916 in British music
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This is a summary of 1916 in music in the
United Kingdom .
Events
Popular music
Classical music: new works
Opera
Musical theatre
13 May –
The Happy Day by
Seymour Hicks , with music by
Sidney Jones and
Paul Rubens , and lyrics by
Adrian Ross , opens at
Daly's Theatre , starring
Winifred Barnes ,
José Collins and
Arthur Wontner , where it runs for 241 performances.
3 August – The
musical comedy
Chu Chin Chow , written, produced, directed and starring
Oscar Asche , with music by
Frederic Norton , premières at
His Majesty's Theatre in London's West End, starring Asche himself,
Frank Cochrane and
Courtice Pounds . It will run for five years and a total of 2,238 performances (twice as many as any previous musical), a record that will stand for nearly forty years.
[6]
Births
8 February –
Jimmy Skidmore , jazz musician (died 1998)
[7]
13 February –
John Reed , actor and opera singer (died 2010)
3 March –
Bernard Stevens , composer (died 1983)
17 March –
Ray Ellington (born Harry Brown), singer (died 1985)
[8]
14 April –
Denis ApIvor , composer (died 2004)
9 May –
Bernard Rose , organist and composer (died 1996)
9 July –
Edward Heath , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, organist and conductor (died 2005)
11 July –
Reg Varney , actor and pianist (died 2008)
[9]
11 August –
Benny Lee , comedy actor and singer (died 1995)
18 August –
Moura Lympany (born Mary Johnstone), pianist (died 2005)
[10]
29 November –
Helen Clare (born Nellie Harrison), singer (died 2018)
[11]
date unknown –
Malcolm MacDonald , composer (died 1992)
Deaths
21 January –
George Musgrove , theatre and opera producer, 62
[12]
13 May –
Jessie MacLachlan , Gaelic singer, 50
2 August –
Hamish MacCunn , composer, 48 (throat cancer)
[13]
5 August –
George Butterworth , composer, 31 (killed in action)
[14]
13 November –
Frederick Septimus Kelly , composer and Olympic rower, 35 (killed in action)
[15]
24 November –
John Francis Barnett , composer and music teacher, 79
[16]
See also
References
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