1946 in British music

none 1946 1946 British music This is a summary of 1946 in music in the United Kingdom. Events February – Kathleen Ferrier's recording contract with Columbia Records expires, and she transfers to Decca. 21 March – Swedish premiere of Peter Grimes, the opera's first performance outside the UK, in Stockholm.Mitchell, Donald (ed) (2004). Letters From A Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 3 1946–51. London: Faber and Faber. 0-571-22282-X. p. 137 June – George Formby is awarded the Order of the British Empire in the 1946 King's Birthday Honours List. Ian Whitcomb 2012 Ukulele Heroes: The Golden Age Hal Leonard Books Milwaukee, Wisconsin 978-1-4584-1654-4 83 5 July – Michael Tippett arranges the first British performance of Monteverdi's Vespers at Morley College, adding his own organ Preludio for the occasion.Cole, Suzanne (2013). "Things that really interest ME: Tippett and Early Music". In Gloag, Kenneth and Jones, Nicholas. The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 48–67. 978-1-107-60613-5. p. 59 6, 7 & 9 August – Leonard Bernstein conducts the first US performance of Peter Grimes at the Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood.Mitchell, Donald (ed) (2004). Letters From A Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 3 1946–51. London: Faber and Faber. 0-571-22282-X. p. 207 Popular music Geraldo and his Orchestra – "We'll Gather Lilacs" (Ivor Novello) Archie Lewis and The Geraldo Strings – "I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)" "It's A Pity To Say Goodnight" – (Billy Reid) Classical music: new works Malcolm Arnold – Symphony for Strings, Opus 13 Edmund Rubbra – Cello Sonata, Opus 60 Michael Tippett – Little Music for String Orchestra Ralph Vaughan Williams – Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, co-arranged with Joseph Cooper William Walton – String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Opera Benjamin Britten – The Rape of Lucretia Film and Incidental music William Alwyn – I See a Dark Stranger, starring Deborah Kerr and Trevor Howard. John Ireland – The Overlanders. Alan Rawsthorne – The Captive Heart, starring Michael Redgrave. Musical theatre 7 March – The London production of Song of Norway opens at the Palace Theatre and runs for 526 performances. 19 December – Noël Coward's new musical Pacific 1860 opens at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, starring Mary Martin and Graham Payn. Musical films Gaiety George, released July 22, starring Richard Greene and Ann Todd. I'll Turn to You, directed by Geoffrey Faithfull, starring Terry Randall and Don Stannard The Laughing Lady, directed by Paul L. Stein, starring Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth London Town, released September 30, starring Sid Fields, Greta Gynt, Petula Clark, Kay Kendall and Sonny Hale and featuring Tessie O'Shea and Beryl Davis. The Magic Bow, directed by Bernard Knowles, starring Stewart Granger and Phyllis Calvert Births 3 January – John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) 6 January – Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd) (died 2006) 10 January – Aynsley Dunbar, drummer and songwriter 22 January – Malcolm McLaren, impresario and founder of the Sex Pistols (died 2010) 7 March – Matthew Fisher (Procol Harum) 21 March – Ray Dorset (Mungo Jerry) 1 April – Ronnie Lane, singer, songwriter and guitarist (The Faces) (died 1997) 2 April – Raymond Gubbay, classical music promoter Birthdays The Guardian 37 2 April 2014 4 April – Dave Hill, guitarist (Slade) 11 April – Bob Harris, DJ 10 May Donovan, folk singer Graham Gouldman, singer and songwriter (10cc) Dave Mason, singer-songwriter and guitarist (Traffic and Fleetwood Mac) 15 May – Aly Bain, Scottish fiddler (The Boys of the Lough) 16 May – Robert Fripp, guitarist, composer and record producer 18 May – Bruce Gilbert, guitarist (Wire and Dome) 15 June – Noddy Holder, singer and songwriter (Slade) 30 June – Giles Swayne, composer 19 July – Alan Gorrie, Scottish singer and bass player (Average White Band and Forever More) 23 July – Andy Mackay, saxophonist, oboist, and composer 10 August – Peter Karrie, star of West End musical productions 1 September – Barry Gibb, singer and songwriter 5 September – Freddie Mercury, singer (Queen) (died 1991) 23 September – Duster Bennett, blues singer and musician (died 1976)Mojo4music.com https://web.archive.org/web/20130616074424/http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2008/07/duster_bennett_1.html 2013-06-16 28 September – Helen Shapiro, singer 14 October Justin Hayward, guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Moody Blues) Dan McCafferty (Nazareth) 29 October – Peter Green, guitarist and singer 8 November – Roy Wood, singer and songwriter (The Move, Wizzard) 11 November – Chip Hawkes, vocalist and guitarist (The Tremeloes) 24 November – Bev Bevan, drummer (Electric Light Orchestra, Black Sabbath) 1 December – Gilbert O'Sullivan, singer-songwriter 10 December – Ace Kefford, bass player 12 December – Clive Bunker, drummer (Jethro Tull, Electric Sun, Solstice, and Aviator) 14 December – Jane Birkin, French-based actress and singer (died 2023) 16 December – Trevor Pinnock, harpsichordist and conductor 29 December – Marianne Faithfull, singer and actress (died 2025) Deaths 29 January – Sidney Jones, conductor and composer, 84Alan Hyman Sullivan and his satellites: a survey of English operettas 1860-1914 https://books.google.com/books?id=1QoXAQAAIAAJ 1 January 1978 Chappell 978-0-903443-24-1 210 20 February – Hugh Allen, organist and choral conductor, 76Maggie Humphreys Robert Evans Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=WSLUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA6 1 January 1997 A&C Black 978-0-7201-2330-2 6 13 March – Thomas Dunhill, composer and music writer, 69Gerald Norris A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=KcMXAQAAIAAJ June 1981 David & Charles 978-0-7153-7845-8 74 13 April – W. H. Bell, composer and conductor, 72Maggie Humphreys Robert Evans Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=WSLUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA28 1 January 1997 A&C Black 978-0-7201-2330-2 28 1 May Edward Bairstow, organist and composer, 71Melvin P. Unger Historical Dictionary of Choral Music https://books.google.com/books?id=SvD9Ou7wdccC&pg=PA27 17 June 2010 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-7392-6 27 Percy Whitlock, organist and composer, 42 (tuberculosis)David Mason Greene Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers https://books.google.com/books?id=m3S7PIxe0mwC&pg=PA1329 1985 Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. 978-0-385-14278-6 1329 16 October – Sir Granville Bantock, composer, 78Jürgen Schaarwächter Two Centuries of British Symphonism: From the beginnings to 1945. A preliminary survey. With a foreword by Lewis Foreman. Volume 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=EIvoCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA510 27 February 2015 Georg Olms Verlag 978-3-487-15227-1 510 10 November – Nicholas Gatty, composer and music critic, 72 5 December – Tom Clare, music hall singer and pianist, 70 15 December – Frederic Norton, composer, 77 See also 1946 in British television 1946 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1946 References nb British Music, 1946 In Category:British music by year