1950 in British music

none 1950 1950 British music This is a summary of 1950 in music in the United Kingdom. Events 9 March – UK premiere of Britten's Spring Symphony at the Royal Albert Hall, London, conducted by Eduard van Beinum.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. 533 September – Herbert Howells' Hymnus Paradisi receives its première at the Three Choirs Festival; the work had been written in 1938, shortly after the death of the composer's young son.Hymnus Paradisi The Musical Times 91 1291 352–353 10.2307/935574 935574 September 1950 24 September – US musicologist Alan Lomax leaves for a tour of Europe, in the course of which he collects folk music from all over the UK, broadcasts on the BBC, and works with folklorists Peter Douglas Kennedy, Hamish Henderson, and Séamus Ennis,A recent BBC radio program (May 12, 2012), The First LP in Ireland commemorates Ennis and Lomax's Irish collaboration. recording among others, Margaret Barry and the songs in Irish of Elizabeth Cronin; Scots ballad singer Jeannie Robertson; and Harry Cox of Norfolk.John Szwed, Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World (New York: Viking, 2010), p. 251. Jazz musician John Dankworth forms the Dankworth Seven, with Jimmy Deuchar (trumpet), Eddie Harvey (trombone), Don Rendell (tenor sax), Bill Le Sage (piano), Eric Dawson (bass) and Tony Kinsey (drums). Gracie Fields' radio show transfers from the BBC to Radio Luxembourg, where it is sponsored by Wisk soap powder. Pianist Moura Lympany divorces her husband Colin Defries.Notable Twentieth Century Pianists by John Gillespie and Anna Gillespie c.1995 p.570 Harrison & Harrison begin work on a 7,866 pipe organ destined for the Royal Festival Hall, working to a design by Ralph Downes. Webb Stanley Patrick Russill Ralph Downes Grove Music Online (subscription access) Oxford University Press http://grovemusic.com 2007-04-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20090106012046/http://grovemusic.com/ 2009-01-06 dead Classical music: new works Malcolm Arnold – English Dances for orchestra, op. 27 Benjamin Britten – Lachrymae Arnold Cooke – Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello Vivian Ellis – Alpine Pastures Arwel Hughes – Dewi Sant (Saint David) (oratorio) Humphrey Searle – Poem for 22 Strings William Walton – 2 Pieces for violin and piano Grace Williams – Three Traditional Ballads W. S. Gwynn Williams – Breuddwyd Glyndwr Opera Hugo Cole – Asses' EarsOperaglass Opera Composers: C Lawrance Collingwood – The Death of TintagilesNaxos bio Norman Demuth – The Oresteia Brian Easdale – The Corn King (written in 1935)The Musical Times, 91 (1294): pp. 481–482 Berthold Goldschmidt – Beatrice Cenci Inglis Gundry – The Horses of the Dawn (not performed)Inglis Gundry, "Some of the operas of Inglis Gundry" Elisabeth Lutyens – PenelopeOperaglass Opera Composers: L Film and Incidental music Richard Addinsell – The Black Rose William Alwyn – State Secret Anthony Collins – Odette Benjamin Frankel – Night and the City Leighton Lucas – Stage Fright John Wooldridge – The Woman in Question Musical theatre Noël Coward – Ace of Clubs Harry Parr Davies – Dear Miss Phoebe Ivor Novello – Gay's the Word Sandy Wilson – Caprice Musical films Come Dance with Me, featuring Anne Shelton and Anton Karas Dance Hall, starring Petula Clark and Diana Dors The Dancing Years, starring Dennis Price Births 21 January – Billy Ocean (real name Leslie Charles), singer and songwriter 12 February – Steve Hackett, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Genesis, Quiet World, and GTR) 24 February – Howard Griffiths, conductor 13 February — Peter Gabriel, singer and songwriter 19 February — Andy Powell, musician (Wishbone Ash) 9 March – Howard Shelley, pianist and conductor 10 March – Stephen Oliver, opera composer (died 1992 in British music) 20 April – Ray Hodson (Line Dance Instructor – UK) 22 April — Peter Frampton, singer and songwriter 3 May — Mary Hopkin, singer 13 May – Danny Kirwan, guitarist, singer and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac) 22 May — Bernie Taupin, songwriter 1 June – Tom Robinson, singer and songwriter 5 June – Barbara Gaskin, singer 16 June – Andrew Ball, pianist 23 June – Nicholas Cleobury, conductor 27 August – Neil Murray, bass guitarist 14 September – Paul Kossoff, guitarist (Free) (died 1976)The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History Palgrave Macmillan 2011 9781403939104 535 26 September – Simon Brint, comedy musician and composer (died 2011) 18 November – Graham Parker, singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Rumour) Deaths 14 February – Robert Graham Manson, violinist, pianist and composer, 66Obituary: Toronto Star, Thursday, February 16, 1950, page 28: 26 February – Sir Harry Lauder, singer, comedian and songwriter, 79Russell, Dave. "Lauder, Sir Henry (1870–1950)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, online edition, January 2011, accessed 27 April 2014 19 April – Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, composer, writer and artist, 66 13 May – Bruno Siegfried Huhn, organist and composer, 78 6 June – Alfred Edward Moffat, composer and collector of music, 86Who was Who. (1941) London: Adam & Charles Black, 2nd ed. 1967, Vol. IV, 1941–1950, pp. 803–804. 28 June – H. Balfour Gardiner, musician, composer and teacher, 72 (stroke)Stephen Lloyd H. Balfour Gardiner Cambridge University Press 2005 9780521619226 211 14 October – Florence Aylward, composer, 88 26 October – Evelyn Suart, pianist, 69 19 November – Thomas Wood, composer, 57 (heart attack)Thomas Wood, by Philip Scowcroft 23 November – Percival Mackey, pianist, composer and bandleader, 56MACKEY, Percival http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/287010 https://web.archive.org/web/20090113202226/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/287010 dead 13 January 2009 Screenonline British Film Institute 23 April 2012 1 December – Ernest John Moeran, composer, 55 (cerebral haemorrhage)"Moeran's Unfinished Symphony", Rhoderick McNeill, The Musical Times, Vol. 121, No. 1654 (Dec 1980), pp. 771-773+775-777 962517 23 December – John Rippiner Heath, violinist and composer, 63 25 December – Edward d'Evry, organist and composer, 81 "date unknown" – Kate Carney, singer and comedian, 80 See also 1950 in British television 1950 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1950 References nb British Music, 1950 In Category:British music by year