1933 in British music explained

This is a summary of 1933 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events

December – Edward Elgar, knowing he is suffering from cancer and does not have time to complete his Third Symphony, tells William Henry Reed: "Don't let them tinker with it, Billy – burn it!"^[1]

"My Lucky Day" and "Happy Ending" by Harry Parr-Davies, performed by Gracie Fields.^[2]

Arnold Bax – Symphonic Scherzo
Arthur Bliss – Viola Sonata
Benjamin Britten – A Boy Was Born
Rebecca Clarke – The Tiger
Eric Coates – London Suite.^[3]
- - Gustav Holst Brook Green Suite
- Lyric Movement
Ralph Vaughan Williams – A London Symphony (revised)

22 November – That's a Pretty Thing (Music: Noel Gay Lyrics: Desmond Carter Book: Stanley Lupino) opens at Daly's Theatre and runs for 103 performances.

20 January – Gerry Monroe, singer (died 1989)
7 February – Stuart Burrows, operatic tenor
14 February – James Simmons, poet, literary critic and songwriter (died 2001)
22 February – Katharine, Duchess of Kent, patron of music
1 March – Gerry Bron, record producer and manager (d. 2012)
6 March – Dolly Collins, folk musician, arranger and composer (died 1995)
14 April – Shani Wallis, actress and singer
21 April – Ian Carr, jazz musician, composer, writer, and educator (died 2009)
22 May – Don Estelle, actor and singer (died 2003)
30 May – Michael Garrick, jazz pianist and composer (died 2011)
10 June — Ian Campbell, folk singer (died 2012)
15 July – Julian Bream, guitarist and lutenist
23 July – Bernard Roberts, pianist (died 2013)
29 July – Anne Rogers, actress, singer and dancer
15 August – Rita Hunter, operatic soprano (died 2001)
21 August – Dame Janet Baker, operatic mezzo-soprano
23 August – Ian Fraser, Emmy-nominated composer, conductor, arranger and music director (died 2014)
10 October – Daniel Massey, star of musical theatre (died 1998)
21 October – Georgia Brown, actress and singer (died 1992)
3 November – John Barry, film composer (died 2011)
23 November – John Sanders, organist, conductor and composer (died 2003)
10 December – Don Charles, singer and record producer (died 2005)
30 December – Andy Stewart, singer (died 1993)

3 March – Robert Radford, bass singer, 58^[8]
15 April – Ernest Bucalossi, British-Italian light music composer and arranger, 73
26 April – Francesco Berger, pianist and composer, 98
10 September – Adrian Ross, English lyricist, 73

http://www.elgar.org/3symph3.htm Elgar – His Music: Symphony No. 3, Op. 88
Shafer, Stephen C. British popular films, 1929–1939: The Cinema of Reassurance. Routledge, 1997. p.199
http://www.rfsoc.org.uk/ecoates.shtml Robert Farnon Society
Web site: BFI | Film & TV Database | FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH (1933) . Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk . 2009-04-16 . 2011-05-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090902191310/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/33999 . 2009-09-02 . dead .
Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The British of the British 'B' Film. British Film Institute, 2007.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090114012516/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/32721 BFI.org
Web site: Happy (film). Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 16 April 2009. 20 February 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121021101118/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/35727. 21 October 2012. dead.
H. Rosenthal and J. Warrack, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera (London 1974 impression), 327).