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- Events
- Popular music
- Classical music: new works
- Film and Incidental music
- Musical theatre
- Musical films
- Births
- Deaths
- See also
- References
{{1930s in music (UK)}}This is a summary of 1930 in music in the United Kingdom. Events- 8 February – Singer Sam Browne makes his first recording with Bert Ambrose's band on Decca.[1]
- 5 April – 25-year-old Michael Tippett gives a concert at Oxted consisting entirely of his own works—a Concerto in D for flutes, oboe, horns and strings; settings for tenor of poems by Fry; Psalm in C for chorus and orchestra, again with a text by Fry; piano variations on the song "Jockey to the Fair"; and a string quartet.[2]
- 7 June - The Daily Herald reports that Jack Hylton and his band sold nearly four million records in the previous year.[3]
- 29 September – Roy Fox gives his first London performance.
- 22 October – The London-based BBC Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert in Queen's Hall, conducted by Adrian Boult.[4]
- date unknown
- The Joe Loss Orchestra is established.
- Gerald Walcan Bright adopts the name "Geraldo" to further his career as a bandleader.[5]
- Songwriter Fred Godfrey and Irish tenor Tom Finglass form a short-lived variety act.
- The Dagenham Girl Pipers are established, under the direction of Rev. Joseph Waddington Graves, the minister of Osborne Hall Congregational church.[6]
Popular music- "By the Sleepy Lagoon", by Eric Coates
- "It isnae me", w. Sally Holmes, m. Edward Elgar
- "Someday I'll Find You", by Noël Coward
- "The White Dove" w. Clifford Grey m. Franz Lehár
Classical music: new works- Kenneth J. Alford – The Standard of St. George
- William Alwyn – Piano Concerto No. 1
- Arnold Bax – Winter Legends
- Arthur Bliss – Morning Heroes (oratorio)
- Edward Elgar – Pomp and Circumstance March No. 5 in C
- Gustav Holst – A Choral Fantasia[7]
- John Ireland
- Legend for piano and orchestra
- Piano Concerto in E flat
- Peter Warlock – Carillon Carilla
Film and Incidental music- Ernest Irving – Birds of Prey[8]
Musical theatre- 25 June – The Love Race opens at the Gaiety Theatre where it runs for 237 performances.
- 30 October – Nippy (music by Billy Mayerl; book and lyrics by Arthur Wimperis and Frank Eyton[9]), starring Binnie Hale,[10] opens at the Prince Edward Theatre and runs for 137 performances.
Musical films- Elstree Calling, starring Teddy Brown
- Harmony Heaven, starring Polly Ward
- Just for a Song, starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Roy Royston and Constance Carpenter.[11]
- The Nipper, starring Betty Balfour
Births- 17 February – Frank Wappat, singer and radio host (died 2014)
- 5 March – Isla Cameron, actress and folk singer (died 1980)
- 10 March – Jimmie Macgregor, folk singer
- 17 April – Chris Barber, jazz trombonist
- 8 May – Heather Harper, operatic soprano
- 30 May – Gordon Langford, composer and arranger (died 2017)[12]
- 1 June – Edward Woodward, actor and singer (died 2009)
- 20 July – Sally Ann Howes, actress and singer
- 1 August – Lionel Bart, composer and lyricist (died 1999)
- 13 August – Bernard Manning, comedian and singer (died 2007)
- 12 October – Cyril Tawney, singer-songwriter (died 2005)
- 1 November – John Scott, conductor and composer
- 2 November – Peter Hope, composer and arranger, also known as William Gardner[13]
- 1 December – Matt Monro, singer (died 1985)
Deaths- 17 February – Louise Kirkby Lunn, operatic contralto, 56
- 22 June – Mary Davies, singer, 75
- 13 November – Thomas Bulch, British-born Australian composer, 67
- 17 December – Peter Warlock, composer, 36
See also- 1930 in British television
- 1930 in the United Kingdom
- List of British films of 1930
References1. ^Sam Browne Discography, by Barry Wolsey (2nd ed. 2004)
2. ^*{{cite book|last=Bowen|first=Meirion|title=Michael Tippett|publisher=Robson Books|year=1983|location=London|isbn=1-86105-099-2}}, pp. 19–20
3. ^Deborah Mawer, "'Parisomania'? Jack Hylton and the French Connection," Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Vol. 133 No. 2 (2008): 271.
4. ^*{{cite book|last=Kennedy|first=Michael|title=Adrian Boult|publisher=Macmillan Publishers|year=1989|location=London|isbn=0-333-48752-4}}, pp. 144-45
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/31/101031792/|title=Gerald Walcan Bright|publisher=Oxford DNB}}
6. ^{{cite book |last=Olechnowicz |first=Andrzej |year=1997 |title='Working-class Housing in England Between the Wars: The Becontree Estate |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-820650-X |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=14T8P6-HiaAC&pg=PA121 |page=121}}
7. ^Short, Michael (1990). Gustav Holst: The Man and his Music. Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0-19-314154-X}}.
8. ^{{cite web | url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6a537bcf | title=Birds of Prey | publisher=British Film Institute | accessdate=August 19, 2014 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140820002734/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6a537bcf | archivedate=August 20, 2014}}
9. ^ReadingProgrammes 1927–1933
10. ^Stock Photography image of Nippy , Music sheet cover for the 1930 music stock photo
11. ^BFI Database entry
12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rhinegold.co.uk/classical_music/gordon-langford-11-may-1930-18-april-2017/|title=Gordon Langford (11 May 1930 – 18 April 2017) - Rhinegold|publisher=|access-date=26 June 2018}}
13. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/bklp/pip/la53q/|title=Brian Kay's Light Programme|publisher=Bbc.co.uk|accessdate=27 September 2014}}
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