1933 in British music

1930s in music in the UK
Best-selling singles
Best-selling albums
Summaries and charts 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939
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This is a summary of 1933 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events

• December - 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 - 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 - Symphonic Scherzo
• Arthur Bliss - Viola Sonata
• Benjamin Britten - A Boy Was Born
• Rebecca Clarke - The Tiger
• Eric Coates - London Suite.^[3]
• Gustav Holst
  • Brook Green Suite
  • Lyric Movement
• Ralph Vaughan Williams - A London Symphony (revised)

Film and Incidental music

• Bretton Byrd - Friday the Thirteenth^[4]
• Colin Wark
  • Song of the Plough^[5]
  • Doss House

Musical theatre

• 22 November - 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, Jose 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 - Gerry Monroe, singer (died 1989)
• 7 February - Stuart Burrows, operatic tenor
• 14 February - James Simmons, poet, literary critic and songwriter (died 2001)
• 22 February – Katharine, Duchess of Kent, patron of music
• 1 March – Gerry Bron, record producer and manager (d. 2012)
• 14 April - Shani Wallis, actress and singer
• 21 April - Ian Carr, jazz musician, composer, writer, and educator (died 2009)
• 22 May – Don Estelle, actor and singer (died 2003)
• 30 May - Michael Garrick, jazz pianist and composer (died 2011)
• 10 June — Ian Campbell, folk singer (died 2012)
• 15 July - Julian Bream, guitarist and lutenist
• 23 July - Bernard Roberts, pianist (died 2013)
• 29 July – Anne Rogers, actress, singer and dancer
• 15 August - Rita Hunter, operatic soprano (died 2001)
• 21 August – Dame Janet Baker, operatic mezzo-soprano
• 23 August – Ian Fraser, Emmy-nominated composer, conductor, arranger and music director (died 2014)
• 10 October – Daniel Massey, star of musical theatre (died 1998)
• 21 October – Georgia Brown, actress and singer (died 1992)
• 3 November - John Barry, film composer (died 2011)
• 23 November - John Sanders, organist, conductor and composer (died 2003)
• 10 December - Don Charles, singer and record producer (died 2005)
• 30 December - Andy Stewart, singer (died 1993)

Deaths

• 3 March - Robert Radford, bass singer, 58^[8]
• 15 April - Ernest Bucalossi, British-Italian light music composer and arranger, 73
• 10 September - Adrian Ross, English lyricist, 73

References

1. Elgar – His Music: Symphony No. 3, Op. 88
2. Shafer, Stephen C. British popular films, 1929–1939: The Cinema of Reassurance. Routledge, 1997. p.199
3. Robert Farnon Society. Rfsoc.org.uk. Retrieved on 2011-05-30.
4. "BFI | Film & TV Database | FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH (1933)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 2009-04-16. Retrieved 2011-05-13.
5. Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The British of the British 'B' Film. British Film Institute, 2007.
6. http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/32721
7. "Happy (film)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 16 April 2009. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
8. H. Rosenthal and J. Warrack, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera (London 1974 impression), 327).