1936 in British music
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This is a summary of 1936 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
- January – Benjamin Britten collaborates with W. H. Auden on the film Night Mail[1]
- June – Sir Malcolm Sargent courts controversy by giving an interview to the Daily Telegraph in which he says that an orchestral musician does not deserve a "job for life" and should "give of his lifeblood with every bar he plays". Musicians take offence because of their support of him during his recent recovery from tuberculosis.[2]
- 1 September – Arthur Rubinstein plays John Ireland's Piano Concerto in E-flat major at the Proms at Queen's Hall.[3]
- 25 September – Sophie Wyss sings the premiere of Britten's Our Hunting Fathers in Norwich, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by the composer.[1]
Popular music
- "Has Anybody Seen Our Ship?" w.m. Noël Coward
- "Let's Have A Tiddley At The Milk Bar", w.m. Noel Gay, sung by Nellie Wallace[4]
- "The Window Cleaner", by Fred Cliff, Harry Gifford and George Formby[5]
Classical music: new works
- Arnold Bax
- Threnody and Scherzo
- String Quartet No. 3 in F major
- Benjamin Britten – Our Hunting Fathers
- Ralph Vaughan Williams – Dona Nobis Pacem
- Percy Whitlock – Sonata for Organ in C minor
Film and Incidental music
Musical theatre
- 22 December - The London production of Balalaika opens at the Adelphi Theatre and runs for 570 performances.
- 11 September - Careless Rapture (Ivor Novello) opens at the Theatre Royal on and runs for 295 performances.
Musical films
- Ball at Savoy, directed by Victor Hanbury, starring Conrad Nagel and Marta Labarr
- The Beloved Vagabond, directed by Curtis Bernhardt, starring Maurice Chevalier, Betty Stockfeld, Margaret Lockwood and Austin Trevor
- Dodging the Dole, directed by John E. Blakeley, starring Barry K. Barnes and Dan Young
- Everybody Dance, starring Cicely Courtneidge
- It's Love Again, directed by Victor Saville, starring Jessie Matthews, Robert Young and Sonnie Hale.[6]
- Limelight, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Anna Neagle, Arthur Tracy and Jane Winton.[7]
- Southern Roses, directed by Frederic Zelnik, starring George Robey, Gina Malo and Chili Bouchier.[8]
Births
- 4 January – John Gorman, entertainer (The Scaffold)
- 29 January – Malcolm Binns, pianist
- 23 February - Trevor Beeton, plumber
- 22 March – Roger Whittaker, Kenyan-born singer-songwriter
- 29 March – Richard Rodney Bennett, composer and pianist (died 2012)[9]
- 20 April – Christopher Robinson, organist and conductor[10]
- 2 May – Engelbert Humperdinck, singer
- 7 May – Cornelius Cardew, composer and musicologist (died 1981)
- 25 June – Roy Williamson, folk singer-songwriter (died 1990)
- 26 July – Mary Millar, singer and actress (died 1998)
- 2 August – Anthony Payne, composer
- 16 September – Gordon Beck, jazz pianist (died 2011)
- 24 October – Bill Wyman, rock bassist
- 5 November – Richard Drakeford, composer (died 2009)
- 14 November – Freddie Garrity, singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) (died 2006)
- 17 December – Tommy Steele, singer
Deaths
- 23 January – Dame Clara Butt, operatic contralto, 63[11]
- 11 February – Florence Smithson, singer, 51 (post-operative complications)[12]
- 4 March – Ernest Pike, tenor, 64 (cerebral haemorrhage)[13]
- 18 May – Alick Maclean, conductor and composer, 63
- 4 June – Mathilde Verne, pianist and teacher, 71
- 15 August – Sir Henry Lytton, Gilbert & Sullivan comic baritone, 71
- 11 November – Sir Edward German, composer, 74
References
- 1 2 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. p. 317
- ↑ Aldous, Richard (2001). Tunes of glory: the life of Malcolm Sargent. London: Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-180131-1. p. 83
- ↑ Foreman, Lewis. The John Ireland Companion. The Boydell Press, 2011: p. xxxiii
- ↑ Vintage Sheet Music. Accessed 3 Sept 2014
- ↑ "When I'm Cleaning Windows". Allmusic.com. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
- ↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/38023
- ↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/40329
- ↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/51674
- ↑ Zachary Woolfe "Richard Rodney Bennett, British Composer, Dies at 76", New York Times, 30 December 2012
- ↑ "Birthday's today". The Telegraph. 20 April 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
Mr Christopher Robinson, Organist and Director of Music, St John's College, Cambridge, 1991–2003, 76
- ↑ Kennedy, Michael. "Butt, Dame Clara Ellen (1872–1936)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Online edition, January 2011, accessed 24 March 2013 (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ↑ "Death of Miss Florence Smithson", The Times, 13 February 1936, p. 10
- ↑ The Musical Times, Vol. 77, No. 1118 (April 1936), p. 368 - Obituary
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