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This is a summary of 1932 in music in the
United Kingdom.
Events
Popular music
Classical music: new works
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Arnold Bax
- Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
- Sinfonietta
- Sonata No. 4, for piano
- Summer Music, for orchestra (revised version)
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Symphony No. 5
- "Watching the Needleboats", for voice and piano (text by James Joyce)
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Arthur Benjamin – Violin Concerto
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Arthur Bliss –
A Colour Symphony (revised)
[2]
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Arnold Cooke – Harp Quintet
[3]
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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 –
A Downland Suite
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Cyril Rootham – Symphony No 1 in C minor
[5]
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Michael Tippett – String Trio in B Flat
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Ralph Vaughan Williams – Magnificat for contralto, women's chorus, and orchestra
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William Walton – 3 Songs to Poems by
Edith Sitwell
-
Grace Williams
- Suite for orchestra
- Two Psalms for contralto, harp and strings
[6]
Opera
Film and Incidental music
Musical theatre
Musical films
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Carmen, directed by
Cecil Lewis, starring
Marguerite Namara and
Thomas F. Burke
[10]
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For the Love of Mike, directed by
Monty Banks, starring
Bobby Howes,
Constance Shotter and
Arthur Riscoe
[11]
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Goodnight, Vienna, directed by
Herbert Wilcox, starring
Jack Buchanan,
Anna Neagle and
Gina Malo
[12]
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Little Waitress, directed by
Widgey R. Newman, starring
Claude Bailey and
Moore Marriott
[13]
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The Maid of the Mountains, directed by
Lupino Lane, starring
Nancy Brown and
Harry Welchman
Births
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3 January –
Johanna Peters, operatic mezzo-soprano (died
2000)
-
12 January –
Des O'Connor, comedian, singer and television host (died
2020)
[14]
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19 January –
Russ Hamilton, English singer-songwriter (died
2008)
-
23 January –
Cyril Davies, blues musician (died
1964)
-
29 January –
Myer Fredman, British-Australian conductor (died
2014)
-
26 February –
Jean Allister, opera singer (died
2012)
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31 March –
John Mitchinson, operatic tenor
-
19 May
-
21 May –
Robert Sherlaw Johnson, pianist and composer (died
2000)
[15]
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27 June –
Hugh Wood, composer
[16]
-
16 July –
John Chilton, jazz trumpeter (died
2016)
-
31 August –
Roy Castle, actor, musician and singer (died
1994)
-
11 September –
Ian Hamer, jazz trumpeter (died
2006)
[17]
-
18 September –
Maureen Lehane, operatic mezzo-soprano (died
2010)
-
19 September –
Lol Coxhill, jazz saxophonist (died
2012)
[18]
-
15 November –
Petula Clark, singer, actress, and songwriter
-
26 December –
Clive Westlake, songwriter (died
2000)
Deaths
-
28 January –
Poldowski, Belgian-born British pianist and composer, 52
-
3 March –
Eugen d'Albert, Scottish-born German pianist and composer, 67
-
14 May – John Hughes, composer of
Cwm Rhondda
[19]
-
22 July –
Hugh Blair, organist and composer, 67
[20]
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21 August –
Frederick Corder, composer and music teacher, 80
[21]
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21 September – William Herbert Scott, church composer and hymn-writer, 70
[22]
-
23 November –
Percy Pitt, organist and conductor, 62
-
4 December –
Mona McBurney, pianist, teacher and composer, 70
-
10 December –
Percy Fletcher, composer, 52
See also
References
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^ Reid, Charles (1961). Thomas Beecham – An Independent Biography. London: Victor Gollancz. OCLC 500565141
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^ Randel, Don Michael (2003).
The Harvard dictionary of music. Harvard University Press. p.
191.
ISBN
978-0-674-01163-2.
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^ British Music Information Centre (1969).
Chamber music by living British composers. British Music Information Centre. p. 10.
-
^
Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions. Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1934. p. 21.
-
^
"Cyril Rootham (1875-1938) - Composer". Rootham.org. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
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^ John Evans, Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928–1938 (Faber & Faber, 2009), p 174
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^ Dunhill, Thomas F., "The Music of Derby Day" (1 May 1932). The Musical Times, 73 (1071): pp. 415–416.
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^
BFI.org
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^
"White Face". BFI. Archived from
the original on 2009-01-14.
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^ Ann Davies; Phil Powrie (2006).
Carmen on Screen: An Annotated Filmography and Bibliography. Tamesis Books. p. 18.
ISBN
978-1-85566-129-5.
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^ Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927–1939. British Film Institute, 1986, page 74
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^ Ian Conrich (14 July 2006).
Film's Musical Moments. Edinburgh University Press. p. 75.
ISBN
978-0-7486-2727-1.
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^ Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927–1939. British Film Institute, 1986, page 256
-
^ Colin Larkin (2002).
The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s Music. Virgin. p. 311.
ISBN
978-1-85227-947-9.
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^
[1]
Times obituary.
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^ Gerald Norris (June 1981).
A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland. David & Charles. p. 198.
ISBN
978-0-7153-7845-8.
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^ Fordham, John (2006-09-11).
"Ian Hamer". The Guardian.
ISSN
0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-03-25.
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^
"Jazz breaking news: Saxophonist Lol Coxhill Dies Age 79", Jazzwise (website), 10 July 2012
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^
Rhondda Cynon Taf: History of Pontypridd
Archived 2009-01-06 at the
Wayback Machine. Accessed 14 June 2014
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^
Alumnae Cantabrigienses. Accessed 26 Sept 2014
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^
"Corder, Frederick". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 385.
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^ Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997).
Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. A&C Black. p. 301.
ISBN
978-0-7201-2330-2.
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