1925 in British music

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This is a summary of 1925 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events

• 3 April - 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

• Mai Jones - "Blackbirds"^[3]

Classical music: new works

• Frank Bridge –
  • "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
• Walford Davies – Men and Angels, for chorus and orchestra, Op. 51
• Frederick Delius – A Late Lark, for voice and orchestra
• Edward Elgar –
  • "The Herald", part-song
  • "The Prince of Sleep", part-song
• Gustav Holst –
  • "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 - Piano Concerto No. 2
• John Ireland - Two Pieces for Piano (1925)
• Ernest John Moeran - Bank Holiday
• Ralph Vaughan Williams -
  • 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 - Portsmouth Point, concert overture
• Peter Warlock - "A Prayer to St Anthony"

Opera

• Armstrong Gibbs - Blue Peter
• Gustav Holst - At the Boar's Head

Musical theatre

• Charlot's Revue of 1925^[4]
• On with the Dance, written and composed by Noël Coward and Philip Braham^[5]

Births

• 17 February - Ron Goodwin, film composer (d. 2003)
• 22 March – Gerard Hoffnung, cartoonist, comedian, musician (d. 1959)
• 18 June - Johnny Pearson, composer, orchestra leader and pianist (d. 2011)
• 2 September - Russ Conway, pianist (d. 2000)
• 20 September - James Bernard, film composer (d. 2001)
• 11 October - David Hughes, operatic tenor (d. 1972)
• 31 December - Daphne Oram, composer and electronic musician (d. 2003).^[6]

• date unknown - Johnny Brandon, singer-songwriter

Deaths

• 13 November - Edward Frank Lambert, composer (born 1868)^[7]

References

1. Holst, Imogen (1981). The Great Composers: Holst (second ed.). London: Faber and Faber. p. 64. ISBN 0-571-09967-X.
2. Avery, Kenneth (1947). "William Walton". Music & Letters. 28 (1): 1–11. doi:10.1093/ml/28.1.1. JSTOR 854707.
3. Huw Williams. "Jones, Gladys Mai". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
4. "Charlot's Revue 1925 (Revised)". A Guide to Musical Theatre. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
5. The Manchester Guardian, 18 March 1925, p. 11 "Great Showmanship"
6. Davies, Hugh (24 January 2003). "Obituary: Daphne Oram". The Guardian.
7. "Edward Frank Lambert". Hyperion Records. Retrieved 2 June 2016.