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This is a summary of 1926 in music in the
United Kingdom .
c. May – Socialist composer
Rutland Boughton stages a performance of his Nativity opera Bethlehem (
1915 ) at
Church House, Westminster , in a staging explicitly referencing the
1926 United Kingdom general strike .
[1]
6 May – In the midst of the
General Strike , a concert of
Leos Janácek 's work is held at the
Wigmore Hall , attended by the composer himself.
[2]
20 October –
Ethel Smyth 's opera
Entente Cordiale receives its first public stage performance in Bristol, having been premièred by students at the
Royal College of Music the previous year.
[3]
November –
Gertrude Lawrence becomes the first British performer to star in a US musical on Broadway, starring in
Oh, Kay! .
[4]
8 December – The premiere of Dame
Ethel Smyth 's Sonata in A minor for cello and piano is held in London, nearly 40 years after the work was composed.
[2]
14 December – The mother of teenage composer
Benjamin Britten brings his work to the attention of
Charles Macpherson .
[2]
17 December – Composer
John Ireland marries Dorothy Phillips, thirty years his junior, at
Chelsea Register Office .
[2]
26 December –
Granville Bantock 's incidental music for Macbeth is used for the first time, in a production at the Prince Theatre, London, starring
Sybil Thorndike .
date unknown
Classical music: new works
3 January – Sir
George Martin ,
record producer (died
2016 )
[14]
21 January –
Brian Brockless , organist, composer, and conductor (died
1995 )
11 February –
Alexander Gibson , conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera (died 1995)
[15]
20 February –
Gillian Lynne , choreographer (died
2018 )
[16]
14 March –
Lita Roza , singer (died
2006 )
[17]
31 May —
Duncan Campbell , trumpeter (died
2013 )
2 July –
Morag Beaton , operatic soprano (died
2010 )
[18]
18 July –
Bryan Johnson , singer (died 1995)
17 August –
George Melly , jazz singer (died
2007 )
[19]
17 November –
Robert Earl , singer
30 December –
Stan Tracey , jazz pianist and composer (died
2013 )
[20]
^
Hurd, Michael (1983).
"Rutland Boughton (1878–1960), The Immortal Hour" .
Hyperion . Retrieved 2014-09-01 .
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Music and History: 1926
Archived 2012-08-28 at the
Wayback Machine . Accessed 28 January 2016
^ Smyth, Ethel (1987). The Memoirs of Ethel Smyth (abridged, edited and annotated by Richard Crichton), p. 290. Viking.
ISBN
0670806552
^ Morley, Sheridan, Gertrude Lawrence . New York, New York: McGraw-Hill 1981;
ISBN
978-0-07-043149-2 . p. 61
^
The Times obituary, 2 August 1958, p. 8
^ Dibble, Jeremy.
"Davies, Sir (Henry) Walford (1869–1941)" , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, online edition, January 2011, retrieved 6 December 2015 (subscription or
UK public library membership required)
^
"Central and Webber Douglas to Merge."
The Stage . 20 April 2004.
^ H. D., "Alfred Herbert Brewer, 1865–1928", The Musical Times , Vol. 69, No. 1022 (Apr. 1, 1928), pp. 315–316
^
"List of works – T to Y" . The John Ireland Trust . Archived from
the original on July 27, 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2015 .
^ Achenbach, Andrew, Notes for EMI 75983, Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto; Delius: Piano Concerto; Finzi: Eclogue; Piers Lane, piano; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vernon Handley.
^
"6 Studies in English Folk Song, for cello and piano" . Ralph Vaughan Williams: Chamber Works . Classical Archives. 2008. Retrieved 2011-02-24 .
^
Harvard Library
Archived 2017-12-13 at the
Wayback Machine . Accessed 27 January 2016
^
PBS: Vernon Duke
Archived 2012-11-12 at the
Wayback Machine . Accessed 22 April 2013
^ Adam Sweeting (9 March 2016).
"Sir George Martin obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 19 February 2019 .
^
"Sir Alexander Gibson obituary" . The Independent . 16 January 1995.
Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 19 February 2019 .
^ Jim Hiley (2 July 2018).
"Dame Gillian Lynne obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 19 February 2019 .
^ Dave Laing (18 August 2008).
"Lita Roza" . The Guardian . Retrieved 29 December 2023 .
^
"Obituary: Morag Beaton" . The Scotsman . 27 April 2010. Retrieved 19 February 2019 .
^ Julian Mitchell (6 July 2007).
"George Melly" . The Guardian . Retrieved 19 February 2019 .
^ John Fordham (6 December 2013).
"Stan Tracey obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 19 February 2019 .
^
Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland . Accessed 28 January 2016
^
"Charles Wood (WT888C)" . A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge. Retrieved 29 December 2023 .
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