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Overview of the events of 1923 in British music
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This is a summary of 1923 in music in the United Kingdom .
12 June – William Walton 's Façade , a collaboration with Edith Sitwell , is given its first public performance at the Aeolian Hall, London .[1] The critics' reception is unfavourable.[2]
4 July – Ralph Vaughan Williams 's English Folk Song Suite is premièred at Kneller Hall , conducted by Hector Adkins.[3]
September–October – Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock ) and E. J. Moeran tour East Anglia in search of original folk music.
11 November – The première of John Foulds 's A World Requiem is held at the Royal Albert Hall in London , with soloists including Herbert Heyner .[4] It is repeated on that date each year until 1926.
23 December – The Beggar's Opera by John Gay and Dr Pepusch , with score restored by Frederic Austin , ends its record run of 1,463 performances at the Lyric Theatre , Hammersmith ; Austin himself plays Peachum, with Frederick Ranalow as Macheath and Sylvia Nelis as Polly.
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18 January – Kate Santley , German-born actress, singer and comedian (exact age unknown)
10 July – Albert Chevalier , actor, singer, songwriter and music hall performer, 62[14]
27 August – Letty Lind , singer and burlesque performer, 61[15]
12 October – John Cadvan Davies , poet and hymn-writer, 77[16]
date unknown – Nicholas Kilburn, choral conductor and composer, 80[17]
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References [ edit ]
^ Kennedy, Michael. "Walton, Sir William Turner (1902–1983)" , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, May 2008, retrieved 27 September 2010 (subscription required)
^ "Futuristic Music and Poetry", The Manchester Guardian , 13 June 1923, p. 3
^ Timothy Reynish, notes for British Wind Band Classics , Chandos Records 9697, 1999 – PDF Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
^ Cover of programme reproduced in Chandos CD booklet.
^ Knight, Peter, ed. (1996). Scottish Country Dancing . Collins. ISBN 0-00-472500-X .
^ Hennessy, Brian 2005 The Emergence of Broadcasting in Britain. Devon Southerleigh
^ Reed, W.H. (1946). Elgar . London: Dent. p. 134. OCLC 8858707 .
^ Obituary, The Times , 29 March 1975, p. 14
^ Lewis, Geraint. "Tippett, Sir Michael Kemp" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online edition. Retrieved 22 August 2013 . (subscription required)
^ "Finzi, Gerald: A Severn Rhapsody op. 3 (1923)" . Boosey & Hawkes . Retrieved 16 August 2017 .
^ Smythe, David K.,The Fuchsia Tree , The Lied, Art Song, and Choral Texts Archive, Access date: 6 June 2012
^ Head, Raymond (July 1999). "The Hymn of Jesus : Holst's Gnostic Exploration of Time and Space". Tempo . New Series. 209 (1576). Musical Times Publications Ltd.: 7–13. JSTOR 957953 .
^ Morley, Sheridan. Coward , p. 27, Haus, 2005 ISBN 1-904341-88-8
^ Burns Mantle; John Arthur Chapman; Garrison P. Sherwood; Louis Kronenberger (1924). Burns Mantle Yearbook . Dodd, Mead. p. 457.
^ Who's who in the Theatre . Pitman. 1930. p. 1432.
^ Edward Tegla Davies. "Davies, John Cadvan (Cadvan; 1846-1923), Wesleyan minister" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 26 June 2019 .
^ Robert Evans; Maggie Humphreys (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland . Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 196. ISBN 978-1-4411-3796-8 .
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