1933 in British music
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This is a summary of 1933 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
- December â Edward Elgar, knowing he is suffering from cancer and does not have time to complete his Third Symphony, tells William Henry Reed: "Don't let them tinker with it, Billy â burn it!"[1]
Popular music
- "My Lucky Day" and "Happy Ending" by Harry Parr-Davies, performed by Gracie Fields.[2]
Classical music: new works
- Arnold Bax â Symphonic Scherzo
- Arthur Bliss â Viola Sonata
- Benjamin Britten â A Boy Was Born
- Rebecca Clarke â The Tiger
- Eric Coates â London Suite.[3]
- Gustav Holst
- Ralph Vaughan Williams â A London Symphony (revised)
Film and incidental music
Musical theatre
- 22 November â That's a Pretty Thing (Music: Noel Gay Lyrics: Desmond Carter Book: Stanley Lupino) opens at Daly's Theatre and runs for 103 performances.
Musical films
- Aunt Sally, starring Cicely Courtneidge and Sam Hardy and featuring Debroy Somers and his Band. Directed by Tim Whelan.
- Bitter Sweet, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Anna Neagle and Fernand Gravey
- Facing the Music, directed by Harry Hughes, starring Stanley Lupino, José Collins and Nancy Brown[6]
- The Good Companions, directed by Victor Saville, starring Jessie Matthews and Edmund Gwenn
- Happy, directed by Frederic Zelnik, starring Stanley Lupino, Dorothy Hyson, Laddie Cliff and Will Fyffe.[7]
- That's a Good Girl, starring Jack Buchanan, Elsie Randolph|
Births
- 20 January â Gerry Monroe, singer (died 1989)
- 7 February â Stuart Burrows, operatic tenor (d. 2025)
- 14 February â James Simmons, poet, literary critic and songwriter (died 2001)
- 22 February â Katharine, Duchess of Kent, patron of music (d. 2025)
- 1 March â Gerry Bron, record producer and manager (d. 2012)
- 6 March â Dolly Collins, folk musician, arranger and composer (died 1995)
- 14 April â Shani Wallis, actress and singer
- 21 April â Ian Carr, jazz musician, composer, writer, and educator (died 2009)
- 22 May â Don Estelle, actor and singer (died 2003)
- 30 May â Michael Garrick, jazz pianist and composer (died 2011)
- 10 June â Ian Campbell, folk singer (died 2012)
- 15 July â Julian Bream, guitarist and lutenist
- 23 July â Bernard Roberts, pianist (died 2013)
- 29 July â Anne Rogers, actress, singer and dancer
- 15 August â Rita Hunter, operatic soprano (died 2001)
- 21 August â Dame Janet Baker, operatic mezzo-soprano
- 23 August â Ian Fraser, Emmy-nominated composer, conductor, arranger and music director (died 2014)
- 10 October â Daniel Massey, star of musical theatre (died 1998)
- 21 October â Georgia Brown, actress and singer (died 1992)
- 3 November â John Barry, film composer (died 2011)
- 23 November â John Sanders, organist, conductor and composer (died 2003)
- 10 December â Don Charles, singer and record producer (died 2005)
- 30 December â Andy Stewart, singer (died 1993)
Deaths
- 3 March â Robert Radford, bass singer, 58[8]
- 15 April â Ernest Bucalossi, British-Italian light music composer and arranger, 73
- 26 April â Francesco Berger, pianist and composer, 98
- 10 September â Adrian Ross, English lyricist, 73