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Music-related events in the United Kingdom during the year of 1914
Overview of the events of 1914 in British music
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This is a summary of 1914 in music in the United Kingdom .
21 January – Edward Elgar makes the first recordings of his music, including the miniature "Carissima" prior to its public premiere.[ 1]
February – Regal Recordings issues its first records.
2 February – The restrictions on performances of Wagner's opera Parsifal outside of Bayreuth having been withdrawn, the first staged British performance opens at London's Royal Opera House , Covent Garden.[ 2]
27 February – George Butterworth 's The Banks of Green Willow is premièred at West Kirby, Liverpool, conducted by Adrian Boult .
16 March – A new concert hall, the Usher Hall , opens in Edinburgh.
c. June – First publication of Orchestration , the classic book by Cecil Forsyth .
26 August – Rutland Boughton 's "fairy opera " The Immortal Hour is premièred at Glastonbury Assembly Rooms as part of the inaugural Glastonbury Festival , co-founded by the socialist composer.[ 3] On August 5, the first concert concluded with the choral song "The Last Post" by Charles Villiers Stanford in lieu of the Grail Dance from Parsifal "owing to the outbreak of war."[ 4]
24 October – Italian-born Welsh-resident operatic soparano Adelina Patti gives her final public performance, in a Red Cross concert for the benefit of First World War veterans, at London's Royal Albert Hall .[ 5]
31 December – English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams , aged 42, volunteers for war service, initially as a private with the Royal Army Medical Corps .[ 6]
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