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Overview of the events of 1929 in British music
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This is a summary of 1929 in music in the United Kingdom .
22 January – Gordon Jacob 's First String Quartet is premiered by the Spencer Dyke Quartet in London.13 June – Eugene Goosens conducts the UK premieres of Igor Stravinsky 's Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments , with the composer as soloist, and of Ottorino Respighi 's Feste Romane Queen's Hall , London.27 June – First London performances of two ballets by Igor Stravinsky , Apollon musagète Le baiser de la fée Kingsway Hall and broadcast on the wireless.4 October – Beethoven ’s complete Ninth Symphony (with full chorus) is performed at the Proms for the first time since 1902. It has become a regular annual fixture of the festival ever since.[1] 12 October – Sir Thomas Beecham , supported by Peter Warlock , launches a six-day festival of the work of Frederick Delius , at the Queen's Hall in London. The composer attends in his wheelchair.[2] October – George Formby has a recording session with Dominion Records.
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Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly form their music publishing company as a result of the success of their song "Show Me the Way to Go Home ".Ray Noble becomes leader of the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra, an HMV Records studio band featuring members of many of the top hotel orchestras of the day.Will Fyffe participates in a screen test, shot for Pathe in New York; it provides rare screen footage of his music hall act.Popular music [ edit ] Classical music: new works [ edit ] Musical theatre [ edit ] Musical films [ edit ] 5 January – Norman Kay , composer (died 2001 )[8] 28 January – Acker Bilk , jazz clarinetist and band leader (died 2014 )[9] 14 February – Wyn Morris , conductor (died 2010 )25 February – Sandy Brown , Scottish clarinetist (died 1975 )5 April – Joe Meek , record producer (died 1967 )6 April – Edmund Percey , architect and jazz pianist (died 2014 )11 May – Stan Kane , Scottish-Canadian actor and singer (died 2015 )13 June – Alan Civil , horn player (died 1989 )[10] 9 July – Alex Welsh , Scottish singer, cornetist, and trumpeter (died 1982 )2 August – Roy Crimmins , trombonist and composer (died 2014 )5 August – John Armatage , drummer and arranger11 August – Alun Hoddinott , composer (died 2008 )20 September – Joe Temperley , jazz saxophonist (died 2016 )2 October – Kenneth Leighton , pianist and composer (died 1988 )4 November – Dickie Valentine , singer (died 1971 )11 December – Kenneth MacMillan , ballet dancer and choreographer (died 1992 )date unknown – Maurice Handford , horn player (died 1986 )[11] See also [ edit ] References [ edit ]
^ BBC Proms Performance Archive ^ "The Published Writings of Philip Heseltine on Delius" (PDF) . The Delius Society Journal (94). Autumn 1987. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-07-13 .^ "Benjamin Britten: Rhapsody for String Quartet" (work details) (in French and English). IRCAM .^ "Rhapsody in Red (about Bush's Dialectic, and other things)" . Retrieved January 6, 2009 .^ Beecham, Thoma (1975). Frederick Delius . Sutton, Surrey: Severn House. p. 203. ISBN 0-7278-0099-X ^ St. Pierre, Paul Matthew (April 1, 2009). Music Hall Mimesis in British Film, 1895–1960: On the Halls on the Screen . New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press . p. 42. ISBN 978-1611473995 ^ "The Broken Melody " . British Film Institute . Archived from the original on 2012-09-05. Retrieved 2013-01-01 .^ "Norman Kay obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 22 February 2010 .^ Leigh, Spencer (4 November 2014). "Acker Bilk: Clarinettist and bandleader who became best known for his sweetly melancholic 'Stranger on the Shore' The Independent Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 4 November 2014 . ^ The Horn Call ^ "Obituaries". Music and Musicians Maurice Handford : A Personal Tribute – The premature death of the conductor Maurice Handford, at the age of 57, has left the musical world a good deal the poorer. Those of us who were privileged to know him as a friend are ... ^ Dudley, Ernest (1958). The Gilded Lily . London: Oldhams Press. pp. 219–220. ^ "Lucy Etheldred Broadwood (1858–1929)" . National Archives . Retrieved 26 June 2019 .^ Pickles John D., "Weatherly, Frederick Edward (1848–1929)" , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , online edition, Oxford University Press, September 2004, accessed 29 August 2010. (subscription required)
^ Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2
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