This is a summary of 1932 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events 7 October – The London Philharmonic Orchestra, recently founded by Thomas Beecham and Malcolm Sargent, gives its first public concert.Reid, Charles (1961). Thomas Beecham – An Independent Biography. London: Victor Gollancz. OCLC 500565141 date unknown – Henry Hall becomes Director of the BBC Dance Orchestra.
Popular music "Ain't it grand to be blooming well dead?" w. Leslie Sarony "The Flies Crawled Up The Window" w.m. Douglas Furber & Vivian Ellis "Love Is The Sweetest Thing" w.m. Ray Noble "Mad About the Boy" w.m. Noël Coward "What More Can I Ask?" w. A. E. Wilkins m. Ray Noble
Classical music: new works Arnold Bax Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Sinfonietta Sonata No. 4, for piano Summer Music, for orchestra (revised version) Symphony No. 5 "Watching the Needleboats", for voice and piano (text by James Joyce) Arthur Benjamin – Violin Concerto Arthur Bliss – A Colour Symphony (revised) Arnold Cooke – Harp Quintet Gustav Holst "If 'twer the Time of Lilies", for two-part choir and piano, H187 (words by Helen Waddell) Jazz-Band Piece Jig, for piano, H179 John Ireland – A Downland Suite Cyril Rootham – Symphony No 1 in C minor Michael Tippett – String Trio in B Flat Ralph Vaughan Williams – Magnificat for contralto, women's chorus, and orchestra William Walton – 3 Songs to Poems by Edith Sitwell Grace Williams Suite for orchestra Two Psalms for contralto, harp and stringsJohn Evans, Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928–1938 (Faber & Faber, 2009), p 174
Opera Alfred Reynolds – Derby Day (with libretto by A. P. Herbert)Dunhill, Thomas F., "The Music of Derby Day" (1 May 1932). The Musical Times, 73 (1071): pp. 415–416.
Film and Incidental music John D. H. Greenwood – After Office HoursBFI.org Louis Levy – White Face
Musical theatre 16 September – Words and Music, a London revue by Noël Coward, opens at the Adelphi Theatre.
Musical films Carmen, directed by Cecil Lewis, starring Marguerite Namara and Thomas F. Burke For the Love of Mike, directed by Monty Banks, starring Bobby Howes, Constance Shotter and Arthur RiscoeWood, Linda. British Films, 1927–1939. British Film Institute, 1986, page 74 Goodnight, Vienna, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Jack Buchanan, Anna Neagle and Gina Malo Little Waitress, directed by Widgey R. Newman, starring Claude Bailey and Moore MarriottWood, Linda. British Films, 1927–1939. British Film Institute, 1986, page 256 The Maid of the Mountains, directed by Lupino Lane, starring Nancy Brown and Harry Welchman
Births 3 January – Johanna Peters, operatic mezzo-soprano (died 2000) 12 January – Des O'Connor, comedian, singer and television host (died 2020) 19 January – Russ Hamilton, English singer-songwriter (died 2008) 23 January – Cyril Davies, blues musician (died 1964) 29 January – Myer Fredman, British-Australian conductor (died 2014) 26 February – Jean Allister, opera singer (died 2012) 31 March – John Mitchinson, operatic tenor 19 May John Barnes, saxophonist and clarinet player Alma Cogan, singer (died 1966) 21 May – Robert Sherlaw Johnson, pianist and composer (died 2000) Times obituary. 27 June – Hugh Wood, composer 16 July – John Chilton, jazz trumpeter (died 2016) 31 August – Roy Castle, actor, musician and singer (died 1994) 11 September – Ian Hamer, jazz trumpeter (died 2006) 18 September – Maureen Lehane, operatic mezzo-soprano (died 2010) 19 September – Lol Coxhill, jazz saxophonist (died 2012)"Jazz breaking news: Saxophonist Lol Coxhill Dies Age 79", Jazzwise (website), 10 July 2012 15 November – Petula Clark, singer, actress, and songwriter 26 December – Clive Westlake, songwriter (died 2000)
Deaths 28 January – Poldowski, Belgian-born British pianist and composer, 52 3 March – Eugen d'Albert, Scottish-born German pianist and composer, 67 14 May – John Hughes, composer of Cwm Rhondda. Accessed 14 June 2014 22 July – Hugh Blair, organist and composer, 67Alumnae Cantabrigienses. Accessed 26 Sept 2014 21 August – Frederick Corder, composer and music teacher, 80 21 September – William Herbert Scott, church composer and hymn-writer, 70 23 November – Percy Pitt, organist and conductor, 62 4 December – Mona McBurney, pianist, teacher and composer, 70 10 December – Percy Fletcher, composer, 52
See also 1932 in British television 1932 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1932
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