“1921 in British music”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Events

January – Sir Charles Villiers Stanford gives a public lecture entitled "Some Recent Tendencies in Composition", criticising current musical trends.^[1]

5 March – Sir Charles Villiers Stanford makes his last public appearance when he conducts his latest work, the cantata At the Abbey Gate.^[2] The Observer thought it "quite appealing even though one feels it to be more facile than powerful."^[3]

June – Adrian Boult conducts an experimental Opera Intime week at the Aeolian Hall in London.^[4]

date unknown – A new production of The Tempest at the Aldwych Theatre, directed by Viola Tree, adds new incidental music by Arthur Bliss to that by Thomas Arne and Arthur Sullivan.^[5]

Classical music: new works

Kenneth J. Alford – The Mad Major

Arnold Bax – Mater ora Filium

Eric Coates – Moresque

John Foulds – A World Requiem (1919–21; premiered 1923)^[6]

Albert Ketèlbey

Bells Across the Meadows
In a Persian Market

John Ireland – Two Pieces for Piano

Cyril Rootham – Suite in three movements for flute and piano

Births

5 February – Sir John Pritchard, conductor (died 1989)

2 March – Robert Simpson, musicologist and composer (died 1997)

21 March – Antony Hopkins, composer and music writer (died 2014)

8 April – Alfie Bass, actor (Tevye in West End production of Fiddler on the Roof) (died 1987)^[7]

23 May – Humphrey Lyttelton, English jazz musician (died 2008)

12 July – Hilary Corke, writer and composer (died 2001)

8 September – Sir Harry Secombe, singer and comedian (died 2001)^[8]

21 September – Jimmy Young, singer and radio broadcaster (died 2016)^[9]

2 October – Robert Bruce Montgomery, composer (died 1978)

21 October – Sir Malcolm Arnold, composer (died 2006)^[10]

References

1. ^Stanford, Charles Villiers. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/765682 "On Some Recent Tendencies in Composition"], Proceedings of the Musical Association, 47th Sess. (1920–1921), pp. 39–53 {{subscription}}
2. ^"At the Abbey Gate", The Times, 7 March 1921, p. 8
3. ^Anderson, W R. "Yesterday's Music", The Observer, 6 March 1921, p. 15
4. ^{{cite book | last=Boult | first=Adrian | title=My Own Trumpet | location=London | publisher=Hamish Hamilton | year=1973 | isbn=0-241-02445-5}}
5. ^Evans, Edwin. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/913374 "Arthur Bliss".] The Musical Times, February 1923, pp. 95–99, accessed 21 March 2011 {{subscription}}
6. ^BBC Press Release
7. ^{{cite book|title=British film and television year book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E223AAAAIAAJ|year=1970|publisher=Cinema TV Today|page=26}}
8. ^{{cite book|author=Harris M. Lentz III|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2001: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P3nGCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA262|date=16 April 2002|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-1278-5|pages=262}}
9. ^{{cite book|author=Colin Larkin|title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kGkZAQAAIAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Virgin Books|isbn=978-1-85227-937-0|page=343}}
10. ^{{cite book|author=Stewart R. Craggs|title=Malcolm Arnold: A Bio-bibliography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HNCLqUq4F94C&pg=PA3|year=1998|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29254-5|pages=3}}
11. ^{{cite news|title=Mrs George Formby's Own Story|work=The Sunday Post|date=13 February 1921|location=Dundee|page=16}}
12. ^{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-THOM-JOH-1839|title=Thomas, John|author=Robert David Griffith|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|date=1959|access-date=19 August 2017}}
13. ^Nancy Benko, 'Barnes, Gustave Adrian (1877–1921)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7, MUP, 1979, pp 179–180.

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