This is a summary of 1924 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events 13 May – Edward Elgar is appointed Master of the King's Musick in succession to Sir Walter Parratt.The London Gazette, no. 32935, p. 3841, 13 May 1924. Accessed 27 October 2010. date unknown Richard Runciman Terry resigns as organist of Westminster Cathedral because of criticism of his choice of music, "erratic behaviour" and "neglect of duty".Peter Doyle, Westminster Cathedral 1895–1995, London, 1995, p.53 The London Labour Choral Union is launched by Rutland Boughton.

Popular music "The Bristol Pageant", w. Frederic Weatherly, m. Hubert Hunt "There's Life In The Old Girl Yet" w.m. Noël Coward "Will You Forgive?", m. Albert Ketèlbey

Classical music: new works Gustav Holst – Choral Symphony (premiered in 1925) William Walton – Bucolic Comedies (lost), with words by Edith Sitwell Arthur Wood – My Native Heath (orchestral suite, including the maypole dance "Barwick Green", now famous as the theme to The Archers)

Opera Ralph Vaughan Williams – Hugh the Drover, with libretto by Harold ChildMichael Kennedy, Liner notes to Hyperion recording of Hugh the Drover. Hyperion Records, 1994.

Musical theatre Primrose, written for the London stage by Guy Bolton and George Grossmith Jr., with lyrics by Desmond Carter and Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin. Puppets, revue with music by Ivor Novello and others, starring Binnie Hale and Stanley Lupino

Births 8 January – Ron Moody, actor, singer and composer (died 2015) 21 January – Benny Hill, comedian, actor and singer (died 1992) 9 February – George Guest, organist and choirmaster of St John's College, Cambridge (died 2002) 27 February – Trevor Duncan, composer (died 2005) 8 March – Alan Dell, BBC radio DJ (died 1995) 15 April – Sir Neville Marriner, conductor and violinist (died 2016). 18 April – Buxton Orr, composer (died 1997) 6 May – Denny Wright, jazz guitarist (died 1992) 19 May – Sandy Wilson, composer of The Boyfriend (died 2014) 20 May – Syd Dale, composer and arranger of big band, easy listening and library music (died 1994) 1 June – John Tooley, opera director and manager (died 2020) 16 July – Johnny Brandon, singer-songwriter (died 2017) 19 September – Ernest Tomlinson, light music composer (died 2015)

Deaths 2 January – Sabine Baring-Gould, hymn-writer and collector of folk songs, 89 15 February – Lionel Monckton, composer, 62Brompton Cemetery website 18 March – Frederick Bridge, organist and composer, 79 27 March – Sir Walter Parratt, composer, Master of the King's Musick, 83 29 March – Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, composer, 71 5 April – Rosalind Ellicott, composer, 66 23 June – Cecil Sharp, folk song and dance revivalist, 64 6 August – John Roberts (Pencerdd Gwynedd), organist and composer, 76 26 November – Rose Hersee, operatic soprano, 78Rosenthal, Harold. "Hersee, Rose", Grove Music Online accessed 25 May 2009

See also 1924 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1924

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