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This is a summary of 1947 in music in the
United Kingdom .
Events
11 –
15 June – The first
Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod is held in
Wales , with
W. S. Gwynn Williams as its musical director.
[1]
19 June –
Kathleen Ferrier appears at Glyndebourne in Gluck's opera
Orfeo ed Euridice .
July – Conductor
Malcolm Sargent is invested with a knighthood for his services to music.
[2]
August –
Edmund Rubbra begins work on his Symphony No. 5 in B flat, Op. 63.
[3]
22 August – The first
Edinburgh International Festival opens. Its co-founder and first director is Sir
Rudolf Bing . The first Festival concentrates mainly on classical music, a highlight being concerts given by the
Vienna Philharmonic , reunited with their erstwhile conductor
Bruno Walter , who had left Europe after the
Nazi occupation of his homeland .
[4]
3 November – The
Royal Variety Performance , held at the
London Palladium and attended by King
George VI , includes performances by
Bud Flanagan ,
Wilson, Keppel and Betty ,
Borrah Minnevitch 's Harmonica Rascals, Valerie Tandy and
Gracie Fields .
December –
Benjamin Britten and singers
Joan Cross and
Peter Pears combine with designer
John Piper and producer
Eric Crozier to found the
English Opera Group .
[5]
[6]
date unknown
Jack Brymer becomes principal clarinettist of the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra .
Gracie Fields hosts Our Gracie's Working Party on BBC radio; in the series, she visits twelve towns (beginning with Rochdale), compering and performing in a live show of music and entertainment, with local talents on the bill.
Popular music
Classical music: new works
Opera
Film and Incidental music
Musical theatre
Musical films
Births
6 January –
Sandy Denny , folk singer (
Fairport Convention ) (died
1978 )
8 January
19 January –
Rod Evans , English singer-songwriter (
Deep Purple and
Captain Beyond )
21 January –
Pye Hastings , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (
Caravan )
29 January –
David Byron , singer-songwriter (died
1985 )
30 January –
Steve Marriott , vocalist (
Small Faces ,
Humble Pie ) (died
1991 )
2 February –
Frank Hennessy , folk singer and radio presenter
3 February –
Dave Davies , singer-guitarist (
The Kinks )
26 February –
Sandie Shaw , singer
5 March –
Clodagh Rodgers , singer
6 March –
Kiki Dee , singer
14 March
24 March –
Mike Kellie , musician (died
2017 )
25 March –
Elton John , pianist, singer and songwriter
1 April –
Robin Scott , singer-songwriter and guitarist
3 April –
Artie Trezise , Scottish folk guitarist and singer (
The Singing Kettle )
16 April –
Gerry Rafferty , singer-songwriter (died
2011 )
18 April –
Polly Brown , singer
23 April –
Glenn Cornick , bass guitarist (
Jethro Tull )
27 April –
Pete Ham , singer-songwriter (
Badfinger ) (died
1975 )
8 May –
Felicity Lott , operatic soprano
31 May –
Junior Campbell , singer and songwriter
1 June –
Ronnie Wood , guitarist (
The Faces ,
The Rolling Stones )
2 June – Sir
Mark Elder , conductor
[9]
3 June –
Mickey Finn (
T. Rex ) (died
2003 )
5 June –
Tommie Evans (
Badfinger ) (died
1983 )
8 June –
Julie Driscoll , singer (
Brian Auger and the Trinity )
17 June –
Paul Young , singer-songwriter (
Sad Café and
Mike + The Mechanics ) (died
2000 )
[10]
3 July –
Top Topham , guitarist (
The Yardbirds )
7 July –
Rob Townsend , drummer (
Family ,
The Blues Band ,
The Manfreds , and
Axis Point )
12 July –
Wilko Johnson , pub rock guitarist, singer-songwriter (
Dr. Feelgood ) and actor (d. 2022)
15 July –
Peter Banks , guitarist and songwriter (
Yes ,
The Syn and
Flash ) (d. 2013)
19 July –
Brian May , guitarist
14 August –
Maddy Prior , folk singer
17 September –
Lol Creme , singer (
10cc )
27 September –
Barbara Dickson , singer
25 October –
Glenn Tipton , rock guitarist
5 November –
Peter Noone , singer, "Herman" of
Herman's Hermits
10 November –
Greg Lake (
Emerson, Lake & Palmer ) (died
2016 )
29 December –
Cozy Powell , drummer (died
1998 )
30 December –
Jeff Lynne , singer, songwriter and producer (
The Move ,
Electric Light Orchestra )
31 December –
Marcus Blunt , composer
Deaths
11 March –
Victor Hely-Hutchinson , South African-born British composer, 45 (pneumonia)
[11]
2 May –
Louie Henri , singer and actress, 83
3 May –
Katie Moss , violinist, pianist, singer, and composer of "
The Floral Dance ", 66
30 May – Sir
Sydney Nicholson , choir director, organist and composer, 72
2 June –
Herman Darewski , composer and conductor, 64
24 July –
Ernest Austin , composer, 72
11 September –
Walter Galpin Alcock , organist and composer, 85
29 October –
Theodore Holland , composer, 69
14 December –
Will Fyffe , comedian and singer, 62 (fell from hotel room window)
[12]
See also
References
^
"Llangollen International Eisteddfod – How it Started" . Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod. Archived from
the original on 2017-08-24. Retrieved 2012-05-08 .
^ Stone, David.
"Malcolm Sargent"
Archived 2014-10-06 at the
Wayback Machine . Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company , 13 October 2001, accessed 15 July 2011
^ Grover, Ralph Scott. The Music of Edmund Rubbra. Aldershot: Scolar Press: 1993.
ISBN
0-85967-910-1 . Includes a worklist.
^ G Bruce, Festival in the North, The story of the Edinburgh Festival, Robert Hale, London 1975, p.20
^ Gilbert, Susie (2009). Opera for Everybody . London: Faber and Faber.
ISBN
978-0-571-22493-7 . p. 107
^ Mitchell, Donald (ed) (2004). Letters From A Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 3 1946–51 . London: Faber and Faber.
ISBN
0-571-22282-X . p. 138
^
Discogs discography . Accessed 22 June 2014
^
"Coronation Scot" . Hyperion . Retrieved 14 March 2019 .
^ Richard Morrison (20 February 2004).
"Pally at the Halle" . The Times . Retrieved 2007-09-23 .
^ Tortorici, Frank (18 July 2000).
"Mike + the Mechanics' Paul Young Dies" . MTV . Archived from
the original on January 17, 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2016 .
^ David Mason Greene (1985).
Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers . Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 1318.
ISBN
978-0-385-14278-6 .
^
4 The Guardian , June 2006
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