This is a summary of 1925 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events 3 April – Gustav Holst's opera At the Boar's Head is premiered in Manchester. date unknown After a spell of ill-health, Gustav Holst returns to teach at St Paul's Girls' School. William Walton dedicates the score of his Portsmouth Point to his patron Siegfried Sassoon, who had recommended it be published by Oxford University Press.
Popular music Mai Jones – "Blackbirds"
Classical music: new works Frank Bridge – "Golden Hair", for voice and piano "Journey's End", for tenor or high baritone and piano The Pneu World, for cello and piano Songs of Rabindranath Tagore (3), for voice and piano, or voice and orchestra Vignettes de Marseille, for piano Winter Pastorale, for piano Eric Coates – 2 Light Syncopated PiecesMusic on the Web – Eric Coates: Orchestral Works Walford Davies – Men and Angels, for chorus and orchestra, Op. 51 Frederick Delius – A Late Lark, for voice and orchestra Edward Elgar – "The Herald", part-song "The Prince of Sleep", part-song Gustav Holst – "God Is Love, His the Care", for choir Hymns (4) for Songs of Praise, for choir Motets (2), for choir Ode to C.K.S. and the Oriana, for choir Terzetto for flute, oboe and viola Herbert Howells – Piano Concerto No. 2 John Ireland – Two Pieces for Piano (1925) Ernest John Moeran – Bank Holiday Ralph Vaughan Williams – Concerto Accademico for violin and strings Flos Campi, for viola, wordless choir, and small orchestra Hymns (5) for Songs of Praise, for choir Two Poems by Seumas O'Sullivan, for voice and piano Three Songs from Shakespeare, for voice and piano Three Poems by Walt Whitman, for baritone and piano William Walton – Portsmouth Point, concert overture Peter Warlock – "A Prayer to St Anthony"
Opera Armstrong Gibbs – Blue Peter Gustav Holst – At the Boar's Head
Musical theatre Betty in Mayfair, with music by Harold Fraser-Simson and lyrics by Harry Graham Charlot's Revue of 1925 Dear Little Billie, with music by H.B. Hedley & Jack Strachey and lyrics by Desmond Carter Love's Prisoner with music, book and lyrics by Reginald Hargreaves On with the Dance, written and composed by Noël Coward and Philip BrahamThe Manchester Guardian, 18 March 1925, p. 11 "Great Showmanship"
Publications William Wallace – Richard Wagner as he lived
Births 17 February – Ron Goodwin, film composer (d. 2003) 8 March – Dennis Lotis, South African-born singer (d. 2023) 22 March – Gerard Hoffnung, cartoonist, comedian, musician (d. 1959) 23 March – Monica Sinclair, operatic contralto (d. 2002) 18 June – Johnny Pearson, composer, orchestra leader and pianist (d. 2011) 2 September – Russ Conway, pianist (d. 2000) 20 September – James Bernard, film composer (d. 2001) 1 October – Alan Styler, operatic baritone (d. 1970) 11 October – David Hughes, operatic tenor (d. 1972) 30 December – Eric Wetherell, composer, conductor, musical author (died 2021) 31 December – Daphne Oram, composer and electronic musician (d. 2003)
Deaths 1 March – Thomas Bidgood, conductor, composer and arranger, 66 (suicide) 22 March – Marie Brema, concert mezzo-soprano, 69 1 April – Francis William Davenport, composer and music writer
See also 1925 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1925
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