1907 in British music

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This is a summary of 1907 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events

21 February – Frederick Delius's new opera, A Village Romeo and Juliet is premièred at the Komische Oper Berlin, under the title Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe.^[1]
date unknown
- John Ansell is appointed musical director at the Playhouse Theatre.^[2]
- George Dyson returns to Britain after a period in continental Europe and is appointed director of music at the Royal Naval College, Osborne.^[3]

31 January – Miss Hook of Holland, with music and lyrics by Paul Rubens, and book by Austen Hurgon and Rubens, opens at the Prince of Wales Theatre; it runs for 462 performances.^[10]
11 September – The Gay Gordons, with a book by Seymour Hicks, music by Guy Jones and lyrics by Arthur Wimperis, C. H. Bovill, Henry Hamilton and P. G. Wodehouse, opens at the Aldwych Theatre.The Gay Gordons in The Play Pictorial, No. 63, Vol. 10, October 1907</ref>

Ernest Walker – A History of Music in England. Forgotten Books. ISBN 1334045305.

26 February – Harry Gold, jazz saxophonist and bandleader (died 2005)
3 March – Joy Finzi, wife of Gerald Finzi and founder of the Finzi Trust (died 1991)
12 April – Imogen Holst, conductor and composer and only child of Gustav Holst (died 1984)
18 May – Clifford Curzon, pianist (died 1982)
28 May – Reginald Foresythe, jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader (died 1958)
12 December – Roy Douglas, composer, pianist and arranger (died 2015)
date unknown – Charles Turner, composer and Second World War spy (died 1977)

28 February – Rosina Brandram, operatic contralto and actress (D'Oyly Carte), 61 (heart failure)^[12]
29 October - Megan Watts Hughes, singer, songwriter and discoverer of "Voice-Figures", 65

↑ Ashbrook, William (1991). "A Village Romeo and Juliet. Frederick Delius". Opera Quarterly. Oxford University Press. 8 (4): 129–31. doi:10.1093/oq/8.4.129 – via Oxford Journals Online. (Subscription required (help)).
↑ Gammond, Peter (1991). The Oxford Companion to Popular Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 17. ISBN 0-19-311323-6.
↑ Foreman, Lewis. "Dyson, Sir George", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press. Retrieved 20 November 2017. (subscription required)
↑ Kennedy, Michael, Portrait of Elgar (Oxford University Press, 1968) ISBN 0-19-315414-5
↑ "© I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside, English Music Hall Song, MIDI and Lyrics". Eastbournecousins.com. Retrieved 2012-01-11.
↑ Lucas, John (2008). Thomas Beecham: An Obsession With Music. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-84383-402-1.
↑ "About this Recording". Naxos. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
↑ Evans, Edwin (1920). "Ralph Vaughan Williams (Contd.)". Modern British Composers. The Musical Times. 61 (927): 302–305. doi:10.2307/909930. ISSN 2397-5318.
↑ "Recordings of Tom Jones". The Edward German discography. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
↑ Cannon, John. "Isabel Jay", Gilbert and Sullivan News, The Gilbert and Sullivan Society (London), Vol. V, No. 10, Spring 2016, pp. 14–17
↑ Bennett, J R Sterndale (1907). The Life of William Sterndale Bennett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. OCLC 63021710.
↑ The Times, 6 February 1907, p. 10

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