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Overview of the events of 1924 in British music
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This is a summary of 1924 in music in the United Kingdom.
Classical music: new works
[edit]- 8 January – Ron Moody, star of Oliver! (died 2015)
- 21 January – Benny Hill, comedian, actor and singer (died 1992)
- 9 February – George Guest, organist and choirmaster of St John's College, Cambridge (died 2002)
- 27 February – Trevor Duncan, composer (died 2005)
- 8 March – Alan Dell, BBC radio DJ (died 1995)
- 15 April – Sir Neville Marriner, conductor and violinist (died 2016)
- 18 April – Buxton Orr, composer (died 1997)
- 6 May – Denny Wright, jazz guitarist (died 1992)
- 19 May – Sandy Wilson, composer of The Boyfriend (died 2014)
- 20 May – Syd Dale, composer and arranger of big band, easy listening and library music (died 1994)
- 1 June – John Tooley, opera director and manager (died 2020)
- 19 September – Ernest Tomlinson, light music composer (died 2015)
- 2 January – Sabine Baring-Gould, hymn-writer and collector of folk songs, 89[8]
- 15 February – Lionel Monckton, composer, 62[9]
- 18 March – Frederick Bridge, organist and composer, 79[10]
- 27 March – Sir Walter Parratt, composer, Master of the King's Musick, 83[11]
- 29 March – Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, composer, 71
- 5 April – Rosalind Ellicott, composer, 66 [12]
- 23 June – Cecil Sharp, folk song and dance revivalist, 64
- 6 August – John Roberts (Pencerdd Gwynedd), organist and composer, 76[13]
- 26 November – Rose Hersee, operatic soprano, 78[14]
- ^ The London Gazette, no. 32935, p. 3841, 13 May 1924. Accessed 27 October 2010.
- ^ Peter Doyle, Westminster Cathedral 1895–1995, London, 1995, p.53
- ^ Maria Kiladi. "The London Labour Choral Union,1924–1940: A Musical Institution of the Left". Royal Holloway University of London. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ "Feedback". Autumn 2007. 2007-10-05. BBC Radio 4.
- ^ Michael Kennedy, Liner notes to Hyperion recording of Hugh the Drover. Hyperion Records, 1994.
- ^ Clive Barker; Simon Trussler (26 May 1994). New Theatre Quarterly 37: Volume 10. Cambridge University Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-521-46656-1.
- ^ "Chronology of London Shows". The Guide to Musical Theatre. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
- ^ Sabine Baring-Gould (1978). Curious Myths of the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-520078-2.
- ^ Brompton Cemetery website Archived 23 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. A&C Black. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2.
- ^ Stanley Sadie (1980). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Macmillan Publishers. p. 241. ISBN 978-0-333-23111-1.
- ^ Dr Pippa Drummond (2013). Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784–1914. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 9781409494614.
- ^ Robert David Griffith. "Roberts, John Henry (Pencerdd Gwynedd; 1848-1924), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
- ^ Rosenthal, Harold. "Hersee, Rose", Grove Music Online [1] accessed 25 May 2009
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