1932 in British music
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This is a summary of 1932 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
- 7 October â The London Philharmonic Orchestra, recently founded by Thomas Beecham and Malcolm Sargent, gives its first public concert.[1]
- date unknown â Henry Hall becomes Director of the BBC Dance Orchestra.
Popular music
- "Ain't it grand to be blooming well dead?" w. Leslie Sarony
- "The Flies Crawled Up The Window" w.m. Douglas Furber & Vivian Ellis
- "Love Is The Sweetest Thing" w.m. Ray Noble
- "Mad About the Boy" w.m. Noël Coward
- "What More Can I Ask?" w. A. E. Wilkins m. Ray Noble
Classical music: new works
- Arnold Bax
- Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
- Sinfonietta
- Sonata No. 4, for piano
- Summer Music, for orchestra (revised version)
- Symphony No. 5
- "Watching the Needleboats", for voice and piano (text by James Joyce)
- Arthur Benjamin â Violin Concerto
- Arthur Bliss â A Colour Symphony (revised)[2]
- Arnold Cooke â Harp Quintet[3]
- Gustav Holst
- "If 'twer the Time of Lilies", for two-part choir and piano, H187 (words by Helen Waddell)[4]
- Jazz-Band Piece
- Jig, for piano, H179
- John Ireland â A Downland Suite
- Cyril Rootham â Symphony No 1 in C minor[5]
- Michael Tippett â String Trio in B Flat
- Ralph Vaughan Williams â Magnificat for contralto, women's chorus, and orchestra
- William Walton â 3 Songs to Poems by Edith Sitwell
- Grace Williams
- Suite for orchestra
- Two Psalms for contralto, harp and strings[6]
Opera
- Alfred Reynolds â Derby Day (with libretto by A. P. Herbert)[7]
Film and Incidental music
Musical theatre
- 16 September â Words and Music, a London revue by Noël Coward, opens at the Adelphi Theatre.
Musical films
- Carmen, directed by Cecil Lewis, starring Marguerite Namara and Thomas F. Burke[10]
- For the Love of Mike, directed by Monty Banks, starring Bobby Howes, Constance Shotter and Arthur Riscoe[11]
- Goodnight, Vienna, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Jack Buchanan, Anna Neagle and Gina Malo[12]
- Little Waitress, directed by Widgey R. Newman, starring Claude Bailey and Moore Marriott[13]
- The Maid of the Mountains, directed by Lupino Lane, starring Nancy Brown and Harry Welchman
Births
- 3 January â Johanna Peters, operatic mezzo-soprano (died 2000)
- 12 January â Des O'Connor, comedian, singer and television host (died 2020)[14]
- 19 January â Russ Hamilton, English singer-songwriter (died 2008)
- 23 January â Cyril Davies, blues musician (died 1964)
- 29 January â Myer Fredman, British-Australian conductor (died 2014)
- 26 February â Jean Allister, opera singer (died 2012)
- 31 March â John Mitchinson, operatic tenor
- 19 May
- John Barnes, saxophonist and clarinet player
- Alma Cogan, singer (died 1966)
- 21 May â Robert Sherlaw Johnson, pianist and composer (died 2000)[15]
- 27 June â Hugh Wood, composer[16]
- 16 July â John Chilton, jazz trumpeter (died 2016)
- 31 August â Roy Castle, actor, musician and singer (died 1994)
- 11 September â Ian Hamer, jazz trumpeter (died 2006)[17]
- 18 September â Maureen Lehane, operatic mezzo-soprano (died 2010)
- 19 September â Lol Coxhill, jazz saxophonist (died 2012)[18]
- 15 November â Petula Clark, singer, actress, and songwriter
- 26 December â Clive Westlake, songwriter (died 2000)
Deaths
- 28 January â Poldowski, Belgian-born British pianist and composer, 52
- 3 March â Eugen d'Albert, Scottish-born German pianist and composer, 67
- 14 May â John Hughes, composer of Cwm Rhondda[19]
- 22 July â Hugh Blair, organist and composer, 67[20]
- 21 August â Frederick Corder, composer and music teacher, 80[21]
- 21 September â William Herbert Scott, church composer and hymn-writer, 70[22]
- 23 November â Percy Pitt, organist and conductor, 62
- 4 December â Mona McBurney, pianist, teacher and composer, 70
- 10 December â Percy Fletcher, composer, 52