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Overview of the events of 1944 in British music
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This is a summary of 1944 in music in the
United Kingdom .
Events
4 January –
Benjamin Britten and
Peter Pears begin a long association with
Decca Records , recording four of Britten's folk song arrangements.
[1] Britten spends most of this year at the Old Mill in
Snape, Suffolk , working on the opera
Peter Grimes .
March –
Vera Lynn goes to Shamsheernugger airfield in British India to entertain the troops before the
Battle of Kohima .
[2]
19 March –
Michael Tippett 's
A Child of Our Time receives its first performances at
London 's
Adelphi Theatre .
25 May – Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears record Britten's
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings for Decca, with
Dennis Brain and the
Boyd Neel Orchestra.
[3]
28 July – Sir
Henry Wood , aged 75, conducts his last
Promenade Concert , evacuated to the
Corn Exchange, Bedford .
[4] He dies three weeks later.
23 September – English-born composer and violist
Rebecca Clarke , stranded in the United States by the war, marries
James Friskin , composer, concert pianist and founding member of the
Juilliard School faculty.
[5]
Popular music
Classical music: new works
Film and Incidental music
Musical theatre
Musical films
Births
3 January –
David Atherton , conductor
[11]
5 January –
Jo Ann Kelly , singer and guitarist (
John Dummer Band ) (died
1990 )
[12]
9 January –
Jimmy Page , rock musician and producer (Led Zeppelin)
[13]
19 January –
Laurie London , English singer
[14]
27 January –
Nick Mason , percussionist and composer (Pink Floyd)
[15]
28 January –
John Tavener , composer (died
2013 )
[16]
2 February –
Andrew Davis , conductor
[17]
15 February –
Mick Avory , drummer
1 March –
Roger Daltrey , vocalist (
The Who )
[18]
17 March –
John Lill , pianist
[19]
23 March
6 April –
Felicity Palmer , operatic mezzo-soprano
[22]
26 April –
Richard Bradshaw , opera conductor (died
2007 )
8 May
10 May –
Jackie Lomax , singer-songwriter and guitarist (
The Undertakers ) (died
2013 )
12 May –
Brian Kay , singer, conductor, and radio host (
The King's Singers )
20 May –
Joe Cocker , singer (died
2014 )
17 June –
Chris Spedding , singer-songwriter and guitarist
21 June –
Ray Davies , singer-songwriter (
The Kinks )
22 June –
Peter Asher , singer and record producer (
Peter & Gordon )
24 June
22 July –
Rick Davies , keyboardist (
Supertramp )
2 August –
Jim Capaldi , musician and songwriter (died
2005 )
[23]
5 August –
Christopher Gunning , composer
16 August –
Kevin Ayers , singer-songwriter (died
2013 )
10 September –
Thomas Allen , operatic baritone
9 October –
John Entwistle , bassist (The Who) (died
2002 )
2 November –
Keith Emerson , keyboardist and composer (died
2016 )
10 November –
Tim Rice , lyricist
Deaths
19 January –
Harold Fraser-Simson , songwriter and composer of light music (born
1872 )
[24]
6 February –
Philip Michael Faraday , organist, composer and theatrical producer (born
1875 )
[25]
12 February –
Annie Fortescue Harrison , songwriter and composer of piano music (born 1850 or 1851)
29 February –
Durward Lely , operatic tenor (born
1852 )
9 May – Dame
Ethel Smyth , composer (born
1858 )
[26]
24 June –
Chick Henderson , dance band singer (born
1912 ; killed in action)
[27]
4 July –
Alice Burville , singer and actress (born
1856 )
11 July –
Frank Bury , composer (born
1910 ; killed in action)
[28]
[29]
13 July –
Eda Kersey , violinist (born
1904 ; stomach cancer)
[30]
19 August – Sir
Henry Wood , conductor (born
1869 )
[31]
21 September –
Louis N. Parker , dramatist, composer and translator (born
1852 )
[32]
See also
References
^ Stuart, Philip.
Decca Classical 1929–2009 , accessed 15 June 2014.
^
"Technology Obituaries: Bernard Holden" . The Daily Telegraph . London. 2012-10-04. Retrieved 2014-06-14 .
^ Mitchell, Donald (ed) (1991). Letters From A Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 2 1939–45 . London: Faber and Faber.
ISBN
0-571-16058-1 . p. 1196.
^ "Jubilee Prom". The Yorkshire Post . Leeds. 1944-07-28. from the rural B.B.C. studio to which the concerts have been transferred.
^ Curtis, Liane (May 1996).
"A Case of Identity" (PDF) . Musical Times : 20.
^ John C. Dressler (March 2013).
William Alwyn: A Research and Information Guide . Routledge. p. 71.
ISBN
978-1-136-66003-0 .
^ Kevin Sweeney (1999).
James Mason: A Bio-bibliography . Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 106.
ISBN
978-0-313-28496-0 .
^ Jefferson Hunter (5 April 2010).
English Filming, English Writing . Indiana University Press. p. 215.
ISBN
978-0-253-00414-7 .
^ Jan G. Swynnoe (2002).
The Best Years of British Film Music, 1936-1958 . Boydell & Brewer. p. 232.
ISBN
978-0-85115-862-4 .
^ Kennedy, Michael.
"Walton, Sir William Turner (1902–1983)" , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, May 2008, retrieved 27 September 2010 (subscription required)
^ Gerald Norris (June 1981).
A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland . David & Charles. p. 197.
ISBN
978-0-7153-7845-8 .
^ Colin Larkin (1998).
The Virgin Encyclopedia of the Blues . Virgin. p. 206.
ISBN
978-0-7535-0226-6 .
^ Joseph Murrells (31 December 1984).
Million selling records from the 1900s to the 1980s: an illustrated directory . Batsford. p. 164.
ISBN
978-0-7134-3843-7 .
^ Joseph Murrells (1978).
The Book of Golden Discs . Barrie and Jenkins. p. 104.
ISBN
978-0-214-20480-7 .
^ Vernon Fitch (2005).
The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia . Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 19.
ISBN
978-1-894959-24-7 .
^ Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997).
Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland . A&C Black. p. 333.
ISBN
978-0-7201-2330-2 .
^ Roderick L. Sharpe; Jeanne Koekkoek Stierman (30 May 2008).
Maestros in America: Conductors in the 21st Century . Scarecrow Press. p. 52.
ISBN
978-1-4616-6948-7 .
^ Ben Marshall (27 October 2015).
The Who: 50 Years: The Official History . HarperCollins.
ISBN
978-0-06-239638-9 .
^ Gerald Norris (June 1981).
A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland . David & Charles. p. 86.
ISBN
978-0-7153-7845-8 .
^ Adam Sweeting (10 June 2023). "Tony McPheen". The Guardian . London.
^ Colin Larkin (2000).
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music . Virgin. p. 289.
ISBN
978-0-7535-0427-7 .
^ Laura Williams Macy (2008).
The Grove Book of Opera Singers . Oxford University Press. p. 363.
ISBN
978-0-19-533765-5 .
^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 92.
ISBN
1-904994-10-5 .
^
The Times obituary, 20 January 1944, p. 7
^ John Parker (1916).
Who's who in the Theatre . Pitman. p. 1867.
^ Ethel Smyth (16 April 2013).
Impressions That Remained - Memoirs of Ethel Smyth . Read Books Limited. p. 10.
ISBN
978-1-4465-4542-3 .
^
[1] CWGC Casualty Record.
^
CWGC entry
^ Edward Greenfield; Robert Layton (2000).
The Penguin Guide to Yearbook 2000-2001: Best Buys in Classical Music . Penguin Books. p. 37.
ISBN
978-0-14-051382-0 .
^
The Strad . Orpheus. 1984. p. 51.
^ Stephen Lloyd (2001).
William Walton: Muse of Fire . Boydell & Brewer. p. 203.
ISBN
978-0-85115-803-7 .
^
Wilson library bulletin . 1944. p. 155.
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