1936 in British music
Events
- January – Benjamin Britten collaborates with W. H. Auden on the film Night Mail[1]
- 12 May – Ralph Vaughan Williams's opera The Poisoned Kiss is given its first performance by the Intimate Opera Company, conducted by Cyril Rootham, at the Cambridge Arts Theatre.[2]
- June – Sir Malcolm Sargent courts controversy by giving an interview to the Daily Telegraph in which he says that an orchestral musician does not deserve a "job for life" and should "give of his lifeblood with every bar he plays". Musicians take offence because of their support of him during his recent recovery from tuberculosis.[3]
- 1 September – Arthur Rubinstein plays John Ireland's Piano Concerto in E-flat major at the Proms at Queen's Hall.[4]
- 25 September – Sophie Wyss sings the premiere of Britten's Our Hunting Fathers in Norwich, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by the composer.[1]
- date unknown – Granville Bantock begins an affair with Muriel Mann.[5]
Popular music
- "Has Anybody Seen Our Ship?" w.m. Noël Coward
- "Let's Have A Tiddley At The Milk Bar", w.m. Noel Gay, sung by Nellie Wallace[6]
- "The Window Cleaner", by Fred Cliff, Harry Gifford and George Formby[7]
Classical music: new works
- Arnold Bax
- Threnody and Scherzo
- String Quartet No. 3 in F major
- William Henry Bell – The Tumbler of Our Lady for soloists, choruses and orchestra
- Frank Bridge – Movement for String Quartet
- Benjamin Britten – Our Hunting Fathers
- Alan Bush – Concert Piece for Cello and Piano
- Erik Chisholm – The Forsaken Mermaid (ballet)
- Eric Coates – Saxo Rhapsody
- Gerald Finzi – Earth and Air and Rain
- Dorothy Gow – Oboe Quintet[8]
- Constant Lambert – Summer's Last Will and Testament[9]
- Haldane Stewart
- "The Winds at Bethlehem" (carol, with words by W. M. Letts)[10]
- "Penned are the Sheep" (carol, with words by R. K. Davis)[11]
- William Walton – Theme for Improvisation
- Ralph Vaughan Williams – Dona Nobis Pacem
- Percy Whitlock – Sonata for Organ in C minor[12]
Opera
- Roger Quilter – Julia
Film and Incidental music
Musical theatre
- 22 December – The London production of Balalaika opens at the Adelphi Theatre and runs for 570 performances.
- 11 September – Careless Rapture (Ivor Novello) opens at the Theatre Royal on and runs for 295 performances.
Musical films
- Ball at Savoy, directed by Victor Hanbury, starring Conrad Nagel and Marta Labarr
- The Beloved Vagabond, directed by Curtis Bernhardt, starring Maurice Chevalier, Betty Stockfeld, Margaret Lockwood and Austin Trevor
- Dodging the Dole, directed by John E. Blakeley, starring Barry K. Barnes and Dan Young
- Everybody Dance, starring Cicely Courtneidge
- Everything Is Rhythm, starring Harry Roy and Dorothy Boyd[14]
- The Last Waltz, starring Jarmila Novotna, Harry Welchman, and Gerald Barry[15]
- It's Love Again, directed by Victor Saville, starring Jessie Matthews, Robert Young and Sonnie Hale.[16]
- Limelight, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Anna Neagle, Arthur Tracy and Jane Winton.[17]
- Southern Roses, directed by Frederic Zelnik, starring George Robey, Gina Malo and Chili Bouchier.[18]
Births
- 4 January – John Gorman, entertainer (The Scaffold)
- 29 January – Malcolm Binns, pianist
- 23 February – Trevor Beeton, plumber
- 22 March – Roger Whittaker, Kenyan-born singer-songwriter
- 29 March – Richard Rodney Bennett, composer and pianist (died 2012)[19]
- 20 April – Christopher Robinson, organist and conductor[20]
- 2 May – Engelbert Humperdinck, singer
- 7 May – Cornelius Cardew, composer and musicologist (died 1981)
- 25 June – Roy Williamson, folk singer-songwriter (died 1990)
- 27 June – Robin Hall, folk singer (died 1998)[21]
- 26 July – Mary Millar, singer and actress (died 1998)
- 2 August – Anthony Payne, composer
- 16 September – Gordon Beck, jazz pianist (died 2011)
- 24 October – Bill Wyman, rock bassist
- 5 November – Richard Drakeford, composer (died 2009)
- 14 November – Freddie Garrity, singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) (died 2006)
- 17 December – Tommy Steele, singer
Deaths
- 23 January – Dame Clara Butt, operatic contralto, 63[22]
- 11 February – Florence Smithson, singer, 51 (post-operative complications)[23]
- 4 March – Ernest Pike, tenor, 64 (cerebral haemorrhage)[24]
- 18 May – Alick Maclean, conductor and composer, 63
- 4 June – Mathilde Verne, pianist and teacher, 71
- 15 August – Sir Henry Lytton, Gilbert & Sullivan comic baritone, 71
- 19 August – Harry Plunket Greene, Irish baritone, 71[25]
- 11 November – Sir Edward German, composer, 74[26]
References
- Mitchell, Donald (ed) (1991). Letters From A Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 1 1923–39. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-15221X. p. 317
- Performances of The Poisoned Kiss advertised on the Bronx Opera's website Archived 2012-01-23 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 25 December 2011
- Aldous, Richard (2001). Tunes of glory: the life of Malcolm Sargent. London: Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-180131-1. p. 83
- Foreman, Lewis. The John Ireland Companion. The Boydell Press, 2011: p. xxxiii
- Katherine de Marne Werner (ed.), 2013, My Dear Rogue, Sir Granville Bantock's Secret Romance That Influenced the Music of One of Britain's Greatest 20th Century Composers, Distinction Press, ISBN 1-937-6671-03
- Vintage Sheet Music Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 3 Sept 2014
- "When I'm Cleaning Windows". Allmusic.com. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
- "Women of Note". Retrieved 14 December 2010.
- Lisa Hardy, The British Piano Sonata 1870–1945
- https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0000D3PXJ
- http://www.banksmusicpublications.co.uk/product/penned-are-the-sheep/41464/338/
- Peter Hardwick (2003). British Organ Music of the Twentieth Century. Scarecrow Press. p. 374. ISBN 978-0-8108-4448-3.
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- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
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- Zachary Woolfe "Richard Rodney Bennett, British Composer, Dies at 76", New York Times, 30 December 2012
- "Birthday's today". The Telegraph. 20 April 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
Mr Christopher Robinson, Organist and Director of Music, St John's College, Cambridge, 1991–2003, 76
- "Robin Hall and Jimmie MacGregor MBE" Archived 2013-12-11 at the Wayback Machine, Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame.
- Kennedy, Michael. "Butt, Dame Clara Ellen (1872–1936)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Online edition, January 2011, accessed 24 March 2013 (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- "Death of Miss Florence Smithson", The Times, 13 February 1936, p. 10
- The Musical Times, Vol. 77, No. 1118 (April 1936), p. 368 – Obituary
- Nicholas Kenyon (2002). Musical Lives. Oxford University Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-19-860528-7.
- Nicolas Slonimsky (1949). Music Since 1900. Coleman-Ross Company. p. 417.
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