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Overview of the events of 1915 in British music
List of years in British music
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This is a summary of 1915 in music in the United Kingdom .
Events
Popular music
Classical music: new works
Opera
Musical theatre
Births
11 January – Harry Lewis , musician and composer (died 1998)
25 January – Ewan MacColl , folk singer and songwriter (died 1989)
4 February – Norman Wisdom , comedian, singer and actor (died 2010)
10 March – Charles Groves , conductor (died 1992)
19 March – Nancy Evans , operatic mezzo-soprano (died 2000 )[ 9]
25 March – Dorothy Squires , singer (died 1998)
29 March – George Chisholm , jazz trombonist and comedian (died 1997)
26 August – Humphrey Searle , composer (died 1982)
28 November – Pamela Harrison , pianist and composer (died 1990)
Deaths
15 January – Florence Everilda Goodeve , composer and lyricist, 53[ 10]
4 June – William Denis Browne , pianist, organist and composer, 26 (killed in action)[ 11]
6 June – William Hayman Cummings , tenor, organist and composer, 83[ 12]
10 December – David Jenkins , composer, 66
See also
References
^ Heseltine, Philip (March 1915). "Some Notes on Delius and His Music" . The Musical Times . 56 (865): 137–42. doi :10.2307/909510 . JSTOR 909510 . (subscription required)
^ Spicer, Paul (1998). Herbert Howells . Bridgend: Seren. p. 44. ISBN 1-85411-233-3 .
^ "Unofficial history of Welsh Guards band" . Archived from the original on 14 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-27 .
^ Peter Gammond (1971), Your Own, Your Very Own!: A Music Hall Scrapbook . London: Ian Allan
^ Kate Kennedy (29 January 2014). "World War One and Classical Music" . British Library . Retrieved 16 June 2018 .
^ McVeagh, Diana , "Elgar, Edward". Grove Music Online . Accessed 20 April 2010 (subscription required)
^ Liner notes to Hyperion Records, Russell Boughton, The Immortal Hour
^ Daily Telegraph , "Nancy Evans" , 24 August 2000
Kennedy, Michael and Bourne, Joyce (eds.), "Evans, Nancy", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music , Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-920383-3
^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers . ISBN 9780393034875 . Retrieved 14 December 2010 .
^ Davies, Rhian (2004). "Browne, William Charles Denis (1888–1915)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/56650 . Retrieved 2007-11-09 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ The Times, Monday, Jun 07, 1915; Issue 40874; pg. 12; col F — Death Of Dr. Cummings. Singer, Conductor, And Composer
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