1928_in_British_music
1928 in British music
Overview of the events of 1928 in British music
This is a summary of 1928 in music in the United Kingdom.
January – Edward German is knighted for services to music.[1]
- April – While studying under Frank Bridge, 15-year-old Benjamin Britten composes his String Quartet in F.[2]
- June – Herbert Sumsion leaves the United States for the UK to take up the post of organist at Gloucester Cathedral.
- 9 August – Percy Grainger marries Swedish artist Ella Ström at the Hollywood Bowl.[3]
- September – Benjamin Britten goes as a boarder to Gresham's School, in Holt, Norfolk.[4]
- 10 October – Eric Fenby arrives in Grez to begin work as amanuensis for Frederick Delius.[5]
- date unknown
- Malcolm Sargent becomes conductor of the Royal Choral Society.[6]
- Arnold Bax begins taking an annual working holiday in Morar, in the west Scottish Highlands.
- Kenneth J. Alford – Dunedin (march)
- Granville Bantock – Pagan Symphony
- Arthur Bliss – Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks'
- Hamilton Harty – Suite for Cello and Piano
- Gustav Holst – A Moorside Suite[8]
- John Ireland – Two Songs, 1928
- Cyril Rootham – "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"
- Ralph Vaughan Williams – Te Deum in G major
- William Walton – Sinfonia Concertante
- Stanley Bate – The Forest Enchanted[9]
- William Henry Bell – The Mouse Trap; libretto after The Sire de Maletroit's Door by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Good Old Days of England, music by Percy Fletcher, libretto by Oscar Asche[10]
- 17 January – Matt McGinn, folk singer (died 1977)
- 8 February – Osian Ellis, harpist
- 5 March – Diana Coupland, singer and actress (died 2006)
- 6 March – Ronald Stevenson, composer and pianist (died 2015)
- 13 March – Ronnie Hazlehurst, conductor and composer (died 2007)
- 2 April – April Cantelo, soprano
- 4 April
- Jimmy Logan, entertainer (died 2001)
- Monty Norman, singer and composer of the James Bond signature tune
- 19 April – Alexis Korner, blues musician and historian (died 1984)
- 27 May – Thea Musgrave, composer
- 6 July – Peter Glossop, operatic baritone (died 2008)
- 16 July – Bryden Thomson, orchestral conductor (died 1991)
- 20 July – Peter Ind, jazz double-bassist and record producer
- 26 August – Andrew Porter, music critic (died 2015)
- 6 October – Flora MacNeil, singer in Scottish Gaelic (died 2015)
- 20 December – Donald Adams, operatic bass-baritone (died 1996)
- 1 March – Sir Herbert Brewer, organist and composer (born 1865)
- 27 March – Leslie Stuart, musical theatre composer (born 1863)
- 13 May – David Thomas, composer (born 1881)
- 21 June – Marie Novello, pianist (born 1898)
- 12 September – Howard Talbot, conductor and composer (born 1865)
- 30 October – Percy Anderson, D'Oyly Carte stage designer (born 1851)
- 26 November – Herbert Sullivan, nephew and biographer of Sir Arthur Sullivan (born 1868)
- Brian Rees (1986). A Musical Peacemaker: The Life and Music of Sir Edward German. Kensal Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-946041-49-7.
- Mervyn Cooke (28 June 1999). The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten. Cambridge University Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-521-57476-1.
- Robert Simon (1983). Percy Grainger: The Pictorial Biography. GIA Publications. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-87875-281-2.
- Eric Walter White (1983). Benjamin Britten, His Life and Operas. University of California Press. pp. 21. ISBN 978-0-520-04894-2.
- Eric Fenby (1996). Fenby on Delius: collected writings on Delius to mark Eric Fenby's 90th birthday. Thames Pub. p. 16.
- Time & Tide. Time and Tide Publishing Company. January 1965. p. 30.
- Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine"World Weary" at the Noël Coward Music Index.
- Holst, Imogen (1974), A Thematic Catalogue of Gustav Holst's Music. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-10004-X. pp. 150, 153, 171
- Michael Barlow, "Stanley Bate". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians online.
- Philip L Scowcroft, THE MUSIC OF PERCY FLETCHER. Accessed 19 June 2015