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Overview of the events of 1937 in British music
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This is a summary of 1937 in music in the
United Kingdom .
Events
24 January –
Ernest John Moeran completes the revised version of his
Symphony in G minor , dedicated to conductor
Hamilton Harty .
[1]
6 March – Composer
Benjamin Britten and his partner, the tenor
Peter Pears , meet for the first time, in London.
[2]
12 May –
William Walton 's ceremonial march, "
Crown Imperial ", originally written for his predecessor, King Edward VIII, is performed for the first time at the
coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth .
27 August – Britten's
Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge is performed at the
Salzburg Festival , conducted by
Boyd Neel .
[2]
20 December – The
Gaumont State Cinema opens in London with
Sidney Torch as organist.
date unknown
Kathleen Ferrier wins the piano and vocal competitions at the Carlisle Festival, and is awarded a special rose bowl as champion of the festival.
[3]
George Lloyd marries Nancy Juvet. Lloyd suffers from PTSD and later acknowledges that he could not have recovered without Nancy's care.
[4]
Ukrainian-born pianist
Benno Moiseiwitsch takes up British citizenship.
Popular music
Classical music: new works
Film and Incidental music
Musical theatre
Musical films
Big Fella , directed by
J. Elder Wills , starring
Paul Robeson and
Elisabeth Welch
[8]
Calling All Stars , directed by
Herbert Smith , starring
Carroll Gibbons and
Evelyn Dall
[9]
Gangway , starring
Jessie Matthews and
Alastair Sim
[10]
Head Over Heels , starring
Jessie Matthews
[10]
Mayfair Melody , directed by
Arthur B. Woods , starring
Keith Falkner and
Chili Bouchier
[11]
The Show Goes On , starring
Gracie Fields ,
Owen Nares and
John Stuart .
Song of the Forge , starring
Stanley Holloway .
[12]
The Street Singer , starring
Arthur Tracy ,
Margaret Lockwood and
Arthur Riscoe
[13]
Take My Tip , directed by
Herbert Mason , starring
Jack Hulbert and
Cicely Courtneidge
Births
8 January –
Shirley Bassey , singer
22 January –
Ryan Davies , comedian, singer and songwriter (died
1977 )
27 January –
John Ogdon , pianist (died 1989)
28 April –
Jean Redpath , folk singer (died
2014 )
5 May –
Delia Derbyshire , musician and composer of
electronic music
[14] (died
2001 )
12 July –
Guy Woolfenden , conductor and theatre composer (died
2016 )
[15]
27 July –
Anna Dawson , actress and singer
19 November –
Geoff Goddard , songwriter, singer and instrumentalist (died
2000 )
30 November –
Frank Ifield , British-born Australian singer
1 December
12 December –
Philip Ledger , composer and teacher (died
2012 )
31 December –
Anthony Hopkins , actor and composer
Deaths
22 January –
Walter Willson Cobbett , businessman and amateur violinist, editor/author of Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music , 89
10 April –
Algernon Ashton , pianist and composer, 77
1 May –
Herbert Hughes , composer, music critic and collector of folk songs, 54
[17]
2 May – Sir
Arthur Somervell , composer, 73
23 July –
Charles Henry Mills , composer and music teacher (b. 1873)
25 November –
Lilian Baylis , founder of Sadler's Wells ballet company, 63 (heart attack)
[18]
23 December –
Muriel Foster , contralto, 60
[19]
26 December
See also
References
^
From Beyond the Stave: The most glorious of English symphonies
^
a
b
Mitchell, Donald , ed. (1991). Letters From A Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 1 , 1923–39 . London: Faber and Faber.
ISBN
0-571-15221X . {{
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link )
^ Leonard, Maurice (1988). Kathleen: The Life of Kathleen Ferrier, 1912–1953 . London: Hutchinson.
ISBN
0-09-173464-9 . pp. 28–30.
^ Kozinn, Allan (1998-07-10).
"George Lloyd, 85, British Symphonic Composer" .
The New York Times . Retrieved 2009-10-22 .
^ Rust, Brian (1973). The complete entertainment discography, from the mid-1890s to 1942 . New Rochelle, N.Y: Arlington House. p. 279.
ISBN
9780870001505 .
^ Macpherson, Ben (2018). Cultural identity in British musical theatre, 1890-1939 : knowing one's place . London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 194.
ISBN
9781137598073 .
^ Ratcliffe, Susan (2006). Concise Oxford dictionary of quotations . Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. p. 370.
ISBN
9780198614173 .
^ Bob McCann (21 December 2009).
Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television . McFarland. p. 357.
ISBN
978-0-7864-5804-2 .
^ Robert James (15 December 2010).
Popular Culture and Working-class Taste in Britain, 1930-39: A Round of Cheap Diversions? . Oxford University Press. p. 139.
ISBN
978-0-7190-8025-8 .
^
a
b James Monaco (1991).
The Encyclopedia of Film . Perigee Books. pp.
287 .
ISBN
978-0-399-51604-7 .
^ Angus McLaren (16 October 2017).
Playboys and Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London . JHU Press. p. 166.
ISBN
978-1-4214-2347-0 .
^ Stephen Shafer (2 September 2003).
British Popular Films 1929-1939: The Cinema of Reassurance . Routledge. p. 134.
ISBN
978-1-134-98837-2 .
^
"BFI | Film & TV Database | the STREET SINGER (1937)" . Archived from
the original on 2012-10-21. Retrieved 2017-08-23 .
^ Wrench, Nigel (18 July 2008).
"Lost tapes of the Dr. Who composer" .
BBC News . Retrieved 22 July 2008 .
^
Michael Billington (24 April 2016).
"Guy Woolfenden obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 26 June 2018 .
^ Humphreys, Maggie (1997). Dictionary of composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland . London Herndon, VA: Mansell. p. 79.
ISBN
9780720123302 .
^
"MusicSack" . Retrieved 27 August 2010 .
^ Tanitch, Robert, "Olivier". Abbeville Press
^
Eric Blom , ed.,
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , 5th ed, 1954, Vol. III, p. 455
^ P. J. Kavanagh (ed.) (2004). Ivor Gurney, Collected poems (reprint ed.). Fyfield Books.
ISBN
1-85754-709-8 .
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