1933_in_British_music
1933 in British music
Overview of the events of 1933 in British music
This is a summary of 1933 in music in the United Kingdom.
- 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]
- "My Lucky Day" and "Happy Ending" by Harry Parr-Davies, performed by Gracie Fields.[2]
- 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
- Ralph Vaughan Williams – A London Symphony (revised)
- 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.
- 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|
- 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)
- 6 March – Dolly Collins, folk musician, arranger and composer (died 1995)
- 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)
- 3 March – Robert Radford, bass singer, 58[8]
- 15 April – Ernest Bucalossi, British-Italian light music composer and arranger, 73
- 26 April – Francesco Berger, pianist and composer, 98
- 10 September – Adrian Ross, English lyricist, 73
- Shafer, Stephen C. British popular films, 1929–1939: The Cinema of Reassurance. Routledge, 1997. p.199
- Robert Farnon Society Archived 2012-02-25 at the Wayback Machine. Rfsoc.org.uk. Retrieved on 2011-05-30.
- "BFI | Film & TV Database | FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH (1933)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 2009-04-16. Archived from the original on 2009-09-02. Retrieved 2011-05-13.
- Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The British of the British 'B' Film. British Film Institute, 2007.
- "Happy (film)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 16 April 2009. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- H. Rosenthal and J. Warrack, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera (London 1974 impression), 327).