1924 in British music

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.
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".
*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
William Walton – Bucolic Comedies, with words by Edith Sitwell
Arthur Wood – ''My Native Heath''

Opera

Ralph Vaughan Williams – Hugh the Drover, with libretto by Harold Child

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

Deaths

2 January – Sabine Baring-Gould, hymn-writer and collector of folk songs, 89
15 February – Lionel Monckton, composer, 62
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, 78