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Overview of the events of 1931 in British music
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This is a summary of 1931 in music in the United Kingdom .
Classical music: new works [ edit ] Havergal Brian – Symphony No. 2 in E minor Frank Bridge – Phantasm , for piano and orchestraBenjamin Britten –
Arnold Cooke – Passacaglia, Scherzo, and Finale , for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and string quartetFrederick Delius –
Fantastic Dance , for orchestraIrmelin Prelude , for orchestraGeorge Dyson – The Canterbury Pilgrims (Geoffrey Chaucer ), for soprano, tenor, baritone, choir, and orchestraEdward Elgar – Soliloquy , for oboe and orchestraGerald Finzi – To Joy , for voice and piano, op. 13Patrick Hadley – Symphonic Ballad: The Trees So High [ 4] Gustav Holst – Twelve Welsh Folk Songs , for choir, H183Herbert Howells –
"A Maid Peerless", for SSAA choir and orchestra
Severn , for SATB choirGordon Jacob – Passacaglia on a Well-Known Theme , for orchestraElizabeth Maconchy –
A Hymn to Christ, A Hymn to God the Father , for double choirThe Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo , for choir and orchestraCyril Scott –
Concerto, for cello and orchestra
Trio No. 1, for violin, viola, and cello
Trio No. 2, for violin, viola, and cello Herbert Sumsion – Piano Trio Michael Tippett – Symphonic Movement , for orchestraRalph Vaughan Williams –
William Walton – Belshazzar's Feast Film and Incidental music [ edit ] 6 January – David Whitaker , composer, songwriter, arranger and conductor (died 2012 )[ 7] 29 January – Leslie Bricusse , composer, lyricist and playwright (died 2021 )5 March – Anthony Hedges , composer (died 2019 )25 March – Humphrey Burton , television music and arts presenter30 June – James Loughran , orchestral conductor (died 2024 )29 April – Lonnie Donegan , skiffle musician (died 2002 )4 July – Duncan Lamont , saxophonist, composer and bandleader (died 1919 )5 July – Aloysius Gordon , British-based Jamaican jazz pianist, singer (died 2017 )28 August – John Shirley-Quirk , operatic bass-baritone (died 2014 )[ 8] 12 September – Tommy Moore , drummer (died 1981 )24 September – Anthony Newley , songwriter, actor and singer (died 1999 )[ 9] 4 October – Anna Reynolds , operatic mezzo-soprano (died 2014 )4 November – Clinton Ford , singer (died 2009 )8 May – Bertha Lewis , singer and actress with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company , 43 (car accident)18 June – Fanny Holland , singer and actress, 8322 August – Joseph Tabrar , songwriter, 73[ 10] 19 November – Frederic Cliffe , composer, 74[ 11] 23 November – Leonora Braham , operatic soprano and actress, 78[ 12]
^ The Opera Quarterly ^ Anon., "Contemporary Music: Festival in England This Year", The Times , issue 45735 (Saturday, 31 January 1931): 10C.
^ Holst, Imogen (1981). The Great Composers: Holst (second ed.). London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-09967-X ^ Mann, William. Note in booklet with 2007 Lyrita CD SRCD 238, 2007, originally written for 1979 Lyrita LP issue.
^ Dunhill, Stanford, Bantock Violin Sonatas [RB]: Classical CD Reviews- May 2001 MusicWeb(UK) ^ Morley, Sheridan. A Talent to Amuse: A Biography of Noël Coward, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1969, pp. 200–214, 223
^ "David Whitaker" . dailytelegraph.co.uk . 2 February 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2012 .^ Gerald Norris (1981). A Musical Gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland ISBN 978-0-7153-7845-8 ^ The Bulletin ^ Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died During the Period ... ^ Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2 ^ John Parker (1967). Who's who in the Theatre
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