This is a summary of 1931 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
24 January – Mary Garden makes her last appearance with the Chicago Civic Opera company. She retires to her native Scotland.[1]
22–28 July – The ninth annual ISCM Festival of Contemporary Music takes place in London and Oxford, with concerts of orchestral, choral, and chamber music.[2]
^The Opera Quarterly. University of North Carolina Press. 1995. p. 7.
^Anon., "Contemporary Music: Festival in England This Year", The Times, issue 45735 (Saturday, 31 January 1931): 10C.
^Holst, Imogen (1981). The Great Composers: Holst (second ed.). London: Faber and Faber. ISBN0-571-09967-X., p. 80
^Mann, William. Note in booklet with 2007 Lyrita CD SRCD 238, 2007, originally written for 1979 Lyrita LP issue.
^Dunhill, Stanford, Bantock Violin Sonatas [RB]: Classical CD Reviews- May 2001 MusicWeb(UK)
^Morley, Sheridan. A Talent to Amuse: A Biography of Noël Coward, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1969, pp. 200–214, 223
^"David Whitaker". dailytelegraph.co.uk. 2 February 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
^Gerald Norris (1981). A Musical Gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland. David & Charles. p. 210. ISBN978-0-7153-7845-8.
^The Bulletin. J. Haynes and J.F. Archibald. September 1992. p. 101.
^Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died During the Period ... A. & C. Black. 1929. p. 1322.
^Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. A&C Black. p. 67. ISBN978-0-7201-2330-2.
^John Parker (1967). Who's who in the Theatre. Pitman. p. 1596.