1933 in British music
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This is a summary of 1933 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
- December - Edward Elgar, knowing he is suffering from cancer and does not have time to complete his Third Symphony, tells William Henry Reed: "Don't let them tinker with it, Billy - burn it!"[1]
Popular music
- "My Lucky Day" and "Happy Ending" by Harry Parr-Davies, performed by Gracie Fields.[2]
Classical music: new works
- Arnold Bax - Symphonic Scherzo
- Arthur Bliss - Viola Sonata
- Benjamin Britten - A Boy Was Born
- Rebecca Clarke - The Tiger
- Eric Coates - London Suite.[3]
- Gustav Holst
- Brook Green Suite
- Lyric Movement
- Ralph Vaughan Williams - A London Symphony (revised)
Film and Incidental music
Musical theatre
- 22 November - That's a Pretty Thing (Music: Noel Gay Lyrics: Desmond Carter Book: Stanley Lupino) opens at Daly's Theatre and runs for 103 performances.
Musical films
- Aunt Sally, starring Cicely Courtneidge and Sam Hardy and featuring Debroy Somers and his Band. Directed by Tim Whelan.
- Bitter Sweet, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Anna Neagle and Fernand Gravey
- Facing the Music, directed by Harry Hughes, starring Stanley Lupino, Jose Collins and Nancy Brown[5]
- The Good Companions, directed by Victor Saville, starring Jessie Matthews and Edmund Gwenn
- That's a Good Girl, starring Jack Buchanan, Elsie Randolph|
Births
- 20 January - Gerry Monroe, singer (died 1989)
- 7 February - Stuart Burrows, operatic tenor
- 22 February – Katharine, Duchess of Kent, patron of music
- 1 March – Gerry Bron, record producer and manager (d. 2012)
- 14 April - Shani Wallis, actress and singer
- 21 April - Ian Carr, jazz musician, composer, writer, and educator (died 2009)
- 22 May – Don Estelle, actor and singer (died 2003)
- 30 May - Michael Garrick, jazz pianist and composer (died 2011)
- 15 July - Julian Bream, guitarist and lutenist
- 23 July - Bernard Roberts, pianist (died 2013)
- 29 July – Anne Rogers, actress, singer and dancer
- 15 August - Rita Hunter, operatic soprano (died 2001)
- 21 August – Dame Janet Baker, operatic mezzo-soprano
- 10 October – Daniel Massey, star of musical theatre (died 1998)
- 21 October – Georgia Brown, actress and singer (died 1992)
- 3 November - John Barry, film composer (died 2011)
- 23 November - John Sanders, organist, conductor and composer (died 2003)
- 10 December - Don Charles, singer and record producer (died 2005)
- 30 December - Andy Stewart, singer (died 1993)
Deaths
- 3 March - Robert Radford, bass singer, 58[6]
- 15 April - Ernest Bucalossi, British-Italian light music composer and arranger, 73
- 10 September - Adrian Ross, English lyricist, 73
References
- ↑ Elgar – His Music: Symphony No. 3, Op. 88
- ↑ Shafer, Stephen C. British popular films, 1929–1939: The Cinema of Reassurance. Routledge, 1997. p.199
- ↑ Robert Farnon Society. Rfsoc.org.uk. Retrieved on 2011-05-30.
- ↑ "BFI | Film & TV Database | FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH (1933)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 2009-04-16. Retrieved 2011-05-13.
- ↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/32721
- ↑ H. Rosenthal and J. Warrack, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera (London 1974 impression), 327).
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