# 1925 in British music

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 Pieces
* 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 Braham

## 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)
* 16 July – Johnny Brandon, singer-songwriter (d. 2017)
* 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