This is a summary of 1936 in music in the United Kingdom .
List of years in British music
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Classical music: new works
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Film and Incidental music
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Ball at Savoy Victor Hanbury , starring Conrad Nagel and Marta Labarr The Beloved Vagabond Curtis Bernhardt , starring Maurice Chevalier , Betty Stockfeld , Margaret Lockwood and Austin Trevor Dodging the Dole John E. Blakeley , starring Barry K. Barnes and Dan Young Everybody Dance Cicely Courtneidge Everything Is Rhythm Harry Roy and Dorothy Boyd [ 14] The Last Waltz Jarmila Novotna , Harry Welchman , and Gerald Barry [ 15] It's Love Again Victor Saville , starring Jessie Matthews , Robert Young and Sonnie Hale .[ 16] Limelight Herbert Wilcox , starring Anna Neagle , Arthur Tracy and Jane Winton .[ 17] Southern Roses Frederic Zelnik , starring George Robey , Gina Malo and Chili Bouchier .[ 18]
4 January – John Gorman , entertainer (The Scaffold )29 January – Malcolm Binns , pianist23 February – Trevor Beeton, plumber
22 March – Roger Whittaker , Kenyan-born singer-songwriter29 March – Richard Rodney Bennett , composer and pianist (died 2012 )[ 19] 20 April – Christopher Robinson , organist and conductor[ 20] 2 May – Engelbert Humperdinck , singer7 May – Cornelius Cardew , composer and musicologist (died 1981 )12 May – David Snell , harpist, composer and conductor25 June – Roy Williamson , folk singer-songwriter (died 1990 )27 June – Robin Hall , folk singer (died 1998 )[ 21] 26 July – Mary Millar , singer and actress (died 1998 )2 August – Anthony Payne , composer16 September – Gordon Beck , jazz pianist (died 2011 )24 October – Bill Wyman , rock bassist5 November – Richard Drakeford , composer (died 2009 )14 November – Freddie Garrity , singer (Freddie and the Dreamers ) (died 2006 )17 December – Tommy Steele , singer
23 January – Dame Clara Butt , operatic contralto, 63[ 22] 11 February – Florence Smithson , singer, 51 (post-operative complications)[ 23] 3 March – Ethel Mary Boyce , composer, pianist and teacher, 73[ 24] 4 March – Ernest Pike , tenor, 64 (cerebral haemorrhage)[ 25] 18 May – Alick Maclean , conductor and composer, 634 June – Mathilde Verne , pianist and teacher, 7115 August – Sir Henry Lytton , Gilbert & Sullivan comic baritone, 7119 August – Harry Plunket Greene , Irish baritone, 71[ 26] 11 November – Sir Edward German , composer, 74[ 27]
^ a b Mitchell, Donald (ed) (1991). Letters From A Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 1 1923–39 . London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-15221X . p. 317
^ Performances of The Poisoned Kiss advertised on the Bronx Opera's website Archived 2012-01-23 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 25 December 2011^ Aldous, Richard (2001). Tunes of glory: the life of Malcolm Sargent. London : Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-180131-1 . p. 83
^ Foreman, Lewis. The John Ireland Companion . The Boydell Press, 2011: p. xxxiii
^ Katherine de Marne Werner (ed.), 2013, My Dear Rogue, Sir Granville Bantock's Secret Romance That Influenced the Music of One of Britain's Greatest 20th Century Composers , Distinction Press , ISBN 1-937-6671-03 [1]
^ Vintage Sheet Music Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine . Accessed 3 Sept 2014^ "When I'm Cleaning Windows" . Allmusic.com. Retrieved September 24, 2011 .^ "Women of Note" . Retrieved 14 December 2010 .^ Lisa Hardy, The British Piano Sonata 1870–1945 ^ The Winds at Bethlehem ^ "Penned Are the Sheep - Banks Music Publications" .^ Peter Hardwick (2003). British Organ Music of the Twentieth Century ISBN 978-0-8108-4448-3 ^ BFI.org ^ BFI.org ^ Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939 . British Film Institute, 1986.
^ BFI.org ^ BFI.org ^ BFI.org ^ Zachary Woolfe , "Richard Rodney Bennett, British Composer, Dies at 76" , New York Times , 30 December 2012^ "Birthday's today" . The Telegraph . 20 April 2012. Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2014 . Mr Christopher Robinson, Organist and Director of Music, St John's College, Cambridge, 1991–2003, 76 ^ "Robin Hall and Jimmie MacGregor MBE" Archived 2013-12-11 at the Wayback Machine , Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame.^ Kennedy, Michael . "Butt, Dame Clara Ellen (1872–1936)" , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Online edition, January 2011, accessed 24 March 2013 (subscription or UK public library membership required) ^ "Death of Miss Florence Smithson", The Times , 13 February 1936, p. 10
^ Brown, James Duff and Stephen S Stratton. British Musical Biography (1897), p. 55
^ The Musical Times , Vol. 77, No. 1118 (April 1936), p. 368 – Obituary^ Nicholas Kenyon (2002). Musical Lives ISBN 978-0-19-860528-7 ^ Nicolas Slonimsky (1949). Music Since 1900
