This is a summary of 1924 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
Popular music
Classical music: new works
Opera
Musical theatre
Births
- 8 January â Ron Moody, actor, singer and composer (died 2015)
- 21 January â Benny Hill, comedian, actor and singer (died 1992)
- 9 February â George Guest, organist and choirmaster of St John's College, Cambridge (died 2002)
- 27 February â Trevor Duncan, composer (died 2005)
- 8 March â Alan Dell, BBC radio DJ (died 1995)
- 15 April â Sir Neville Marriner, conductor and violinist (died 2016)
- 18 April â Buxton Orr, composer (died 1997)
- 6 May â Denny Wright, jazz guitarist (died 1992)
- 19 May â Sandy Wilson, composer of The Boyfriend (died 2014)
- 20 May â Syd Dale, composer and arranger of big band, easy listening and library music (died 1994)
- 1 June â John Tooley, opera director and manager (died 2020)
- 16 July â Johnny Brandon, singer-songwriter (died 2017)
- 19 September â Ernest Tomlinson, light music composer (died 2015)
Deaths
- 2 January â Sabine Baring-Gould, hymn-writer and collector of folk songs, 89
- 15 February â Lionel Monckton, composer, 62
- 18 March â Frederick Bridge, organist and composer, 79
- 27 March â Sir Walter Parratt, composer, Master of the King's Musick, 83
- 29 March â Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, composer, 71
- 5 April â Rosalind Ellicott, composer, 66
- 23 June â Cecil Sharp, folk song and dance revivalist, 64
- 6 August â John Roberts (Pencerdd Gwynedd), organist and composer, 76
- 26 November â Rose Hersee, operatic soprano, 78
See also
References