1925 in British music
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This is a summary of 1925 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
- 3 April â Gustav Holst's opera At the Boar's Head is premiered in Manchester.
- date unknown
- After a spell of ill-health, Gustav Holst returns to teach at St Paul's Girls' School.[1]
- William Walton dedicates the score of his Portsmouth Point to his patron Siegfried Sassoon, who had recommended it be published by Oxford University Press.[2]
Popular music
Classical music: new works
- Frank Bridge â
- "Golden Hair", for voice and piano
- "Journey's End", for tenor or high baritone and piano
- The Pneu World, for cello and piano
- Songs of Rabindranath Tagore (3), for voice and piano, or voice and orchestra
- Vignettes de Marseille, for piano
- Winter Pastorale, for piano
- Eric Coates â 2 Light Syncopated Pieces[4]
- Walford Davies â Men and Angels, for chorus and orchestra, Op. 51
- Frederick Delius â A Late Lark, for voice and orchestra
- Edward Elgar â
- "The Herald", part-song
- "The Prince of Sleep", part-song
- Gustav Holst â
- "God Is Love, His the Care", for choir
- Hymns (4) for Songs of Praise, for choir
- Motets (2), for choir
- Ode to C.K.S. and the Oriana, for choir
- Terzetto for flute, oboe and viola
- Herbert Howells â Piano Concerto No. 2
- John Ireland â Two Pieces for Piano (1925)
- Ernest John Moeran â Bank Holiday
- Ralph Vaughan Williams â
- Concerto Accademico for violin and strings
- Flos Campi, for viola, wordless choir, and small orchestra
- Hymns (5) for Songs of Praise, for choir
- Two Poems by Seumas O'Sullivan, for voice and piano
- Three Songs from Shakespeare, for voice and piano
- Three Poems by Walt Whitman, for baritone and piano
- William Walton â Portsmouth Point, concert overture
- Peter Warlock â "A Prayer to St Anthony"
Opera
- Armstrong Gibbs â Blue Peter
- Gustav Holst â At the Boar's Head
Musical theatre
- Betty in Mayfair, with music by Harold Fraser-Simson and lyrics by Harry Graham[5]
- Charlot's Revue of 1925[6]
- Dear Little Billie, with music by H.B. Hedley & Jack Strachey and lyrics by Desmond Carter[5]
- Love's Prisoner with music, book and lyrics by Reginald Hargreaves[5]
- On with the Dance, written and composed by Noël Coward and Philip Braham[7]
Publications
- William Wallace â Richard Wagner as he lived
Births
- 17 February â Ron Goodwin, film composer (d. 2003)
- 8 March â Dennis Lotis, South African-born singer[8] (d. 2023)
- 22 March â Gerard Hoffnung, cartoonist, comedian, musician (d. 1959)
- 23 March â Monica Sinclair, operatic contralto (d. 2002)
- 18 June â Johnny Pearson, composer, orchestra leader and pianist (d. 2011)
- 2 September â Russ Conway, pianist (d. 2000)
- 20 September â James Bernard, film composer (d. 2001)
- 1 October â Alan Styler, operatic baritone (d. 1970)
- 11 October â David Hughes, operatic tenor (d. 1972)
- 30 December â Eric Wetherell, composer, conductor, musical author (died 2021)
- 31 December â Daphne Oram, composer and electronic musician (d. 2003)[9]
Deaths
- 1 March â Thomas Bidgood, conductor, composer and arranger, 66 (suicide)[10]
- 22 March â Marie Brema, concert mezzo-soprano, 69
- 1 April â Francis William Davenport, composer and music writer[11]