1930 In British Music

This is a summary of 1930 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events

*8 February – Singer Sam Browne makes his first recording with Bert Ambrose's band on Decca.
*5 April – 25-year-old Michael Tippett gives a concert at Oxted consisting entirely of his own works—a Concerto in D for flutes, oboe, horns and strings; settings for tenor of poems by Fry; ''Psalm in C'' for chorus and orchestra, again with a text by Fry; piano variations on the song "Jockey to the Fair"; and a string quartet.
*7 June - The ''Daily Herald'' reports that Jack Hylton and his band sold nearly four million records in the previous year.
*29 September – Roy Fox gives his first London performance.
*22 October – The London-based BBC Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert in Queen's Hall, conducted by Adrian Boult.
*''date unknown''
**The Joe Loss Orchestra is established.
**Gerald Walcan Bright adopts the name " Geraldo" to further his career as a bandleader.
**Songwriter Fred Godfrey and Irish tenor Tom Finglass form a short-lived variety act.
**The Dagenham Girl Pipers are established, under the direction of Rev. Joseph Waddington Graves, the minister of Osborne Hall Congregational church.

Popular music

*"By the Sleepy Lagoon", by Eric Coates
*"It isnae me", w. Sally Holmes, m. Edward Elgar
*"Someday I'll Find You", by Noël Coward
* "The White Dove" w. Clifford Grey m. Franz Lehár

Classical music: new works

*Kenneth J. Alford – ''The Standard of St. George''
*William Alwyn – Piano Concerto No. 1
*Arnold Bax – ''Winter Legends''
*Arthur Bliss – ''Morning Heroes'' (oratorio)
*Edward Elgar – '' Pomp and Circumstance March No. 5 in C''
*Gustav Holst – '' A Choral Fantasia''
*John Ireland
**''Legend'' for piano and orchestra
** Piano Concerto in E flat
*Peter Warlock – ''Carillon Carilla''

Film and Incidental music

*Ernest Irving – ''Birds of Prey''

Musical theatre

*25 June – ''The Love Race'' opens at the Gaiety Theatre where it runs for 237 performances.
*30 October – ''Nippy'' (music by Billy Mayerl; book and lyrics by Arthur Wimperis and Frank Eyton), starring Binnie Hale, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre and runs for 137 performances.

Musical films

* ''Elstree Calling'', starring Teddy Brown
* ''Harmony Heaven'', starring Polly Ward
* ''Just for a Song'', starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Roy Royston and Constance Carpenter.
* ''The Nipper'', starring Betty Balfour

Births

*5 January – Saxa, Jamaican-born British saxophonist (died 2017)
*17 February – Frank Wappat, singer and radio host (died 2014)
*5 March – Isla Cameron, actress and folk singer (died 1980)
*10 March – Jimmie Macgregor, folk singer
*28 March – Elizabeth Bainbridge, operatic soprano
*17 April – Chris Barber, jazz trombonist (died 2021)
*4 May – Bill Eyden, jazz drummer (died 2004)
*8 May – Heather Harper, operatic soprano (died 2019)
*22 May – Kenny Ball, jazz trumpeter and bandleader (died 2013)
*28 May – Julian Slade, composer (died 2006)
*30 May – Gordon Langford)
*1 June – Edward Woodward, actor and singer (died 2009)
*10 July – Josephine Veasey, mezzo-soprano
*20 July – Sally Ann Howes, actress and singer
*27 July – Andy White, Scottish drummer (died 2015)
*1 August – Lionel Bart, composer and lyricist (died 1999)
*13 August – Bernard Manning, comedian and singer (died 2007)
*12 October – Cyril Tawney, singer-songwriter (died 2005)
*1 November – John Scott, conductor and composer
*2 November – Peter Hope (also known as William Gardner), composer and arranger
*1 December – Matt Monro, singer (died 1985)

Deaths

*17 February – Louise Kirkby Lunn, operatic contralto, 56
*22 June – Mary Davies, singer, 75
*13 November – Thomas Bulch, British-born Australian composer, 67
*17 December – Peter Warlock, composer, 36

See also

* 1930 in British television
* 1930 in the United Kingdom
* List of British films of 1930

References

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