1958 in British music

none 1958 1958 British music This is a summary of 1958 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. Events 24 January – Paul McCartney makes his first appearance at The Cavern Club in Liverpool with The Quarrymen.Spitz Bob Bob Spitz 2005 The Beatles: The Biography Little Brown & Company 978-0-316-80352-6 125, 142–3 5 February – Michael Tippett's Symphony No. 2 is first performed in London.Kendall Alan The Chronicle of Classical Music London Thames & Hudson 2000 243 12 March – The UK has not entered the third annual Eurovision Song Contest, after coming 7th previous year. It is the second of the only two occasions in the contest's history that the UK fails to enter. 1 April – BBC Radiophonic Workshop created. 2 April – Ralph Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 9 is premiered in London by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent. 10 April – Singer Cleo Laine and bandleader John Dankworth marry. 19 April – The Marquee Club first opens in London, as a jazz venue. July – Pete Seeger begins performing his new song "The Bells of Rhymney", based on a lyric by Welsh poet Idris Davies. c. 12 July – The Quarrymen (Paul McCartney, John Lennon (lead vocals), George Harrison, Colin Hanton (drums) and John Lowe (piano)) record a single 78 rpm shellac acetate disc at Phillips' Sound Recording Services in Liverpool: "In Spite of All the Danger" (McCartney–Harrison) and a cover of Buddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day". 28 August – Anton Bruckner's Symphony No 4 is performed at the Proms, the first complete Bruckner symphony to be played at the festival since 1903. 29 August – "Move It", the debut record by Cliff Richard and the Drifters, is released on the Columbia label, reaching number 2 on the UK Singles Chart. It is credited with being one of the first authentic rock and roll songs produced outside the United States.http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/indepth/moveit.shtml Sold on Song Top 100 BBC 2007-11-18 2–9 December – Decca makes the first complete recording of Peter Grimes, conducted by the composer Benjamin Britten.Reed, Philip & Cooke, Mervyn (eds). Letters From a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 5 1958–1965. The Boydell Press (2010). p. 67 Charts See UK No.1 Hits of 1958 Classical music: new works William Alwyn – Fanfare for a Joyful Occasion, for orchestra Malcolm Arnold – Sinfonietta No. 2, for orchestra, Op. 65 Lennox Berkeley Concerto, for piano and double string orchestra, Op. 46 Poems of W.H. Auden (5), for soprano or tenor and piano, Op. 53 Ronald Binge – "The Watermill"Hyperion Records. Accessed 23 April 2014 Arthur Bliss – The Lady of Shalott (ballet) Cornelius Cardew – Piano Sonata No. 3 Daniel Jones – The Country Beyond the Stars (cantata) Peter Maxwell Davies – Prolation, for orchestra Peter Racine Fricker – A Vision of Judgement (chorus and orchestra) Thea Musgrave – String Quartet Edmund Rubbra – Violin Concerto Ian Parrott – Concerto for English horn (cor anglais) and orchestra Humphrey Searle – Symphony No 2 Michael Tippett – Symphony No 2 William Walton – Partita for orchestra Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony No. 9 Grace Williams – Six Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins for contralto and string sextet Opera Benjamin Britten – Noye's Fludde Humphrey Searle – The Diary of a MadmanSearle, Humphrey (1958). The Diary of a Madman. London and Mainz: Schott and Co. Film and incidental music Richard Addinsell – A Tale of Two Cities, starring Dirk Bogarde and Dorothy Tutin. John Addison – I Was Monty's Double. William Alwyn – A Night to Remember directed by Roy Ward Baker. Malcolm Arnold – Dunkirk, starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough and Bernard Lee. James Bernard – Dracula directed by Terence Fisher, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Buxton Orr – Corridors of Blood, starring Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee. Leonard Salzedo – The Revenge of Frankenstein directed by Terence Fisher, starring Peter Cushing. Musical theatre Expresso Bongo, book by Wolf Mankowitz and Julian More, with music by David Heneker and Monty Norman Valmouth, by Sandy Wilson, based on the novel by Ronald Firbank Musical films The Duke Wore Jeans, starring Tommy Steele The Golden Disc, starring Lee Patterson and Terry Dene https://web.archive.org/web/20170825020037/http://www.renownfilms.co.uk/music-c-4/golden-disc-p-57.html 2017-08-25 Renown Pictures Ltd, PO Box 592, Kings Langley, Herts WD4 4DB Births 8 January – Steve Garvey, bass guitarist (Buzzcocks) 17 January – Andrew Lowe Watson, composer of musical theatre and concert music (d.2021) 24 January – Jools Holland, pianist, bandleader and television presenter 21 February Jake Burns, punk singer Simon Holt, composer 23 February – David Sylvian, vocalist (Japan) 24 February – Mike Pickering, keyboardist (M People) 1 March – Nik Kershaw, singer-songwriter 5 March – Andy Gibb, English-born singer (died 1988) 8 March – Gary Numan, British singer 9 March – Martin Fry, vocalist of ABC 18 March – Neil Brand, British writer, pianist and composer 11 April – Stuart Adamson (Big Country) (d. 2001) 12 April – Will Sergeant, guitarist (Echo & the Bunnymen) 15 April – Benjamin Zephaniah, writer and musician 18 April – Les Pattinson, bassist (Echo & the Bunnymen) 25 April – Fish, Scottish singer 17 May – Alan Rankine, musician and producer 18 May – Toyah Willcox, actress and singer 25 May – Paul Weller, singer-songwriter 25 May – Howard Goodall, composer of musicals, choral music and music for television 11 June – Barry Adamson, singer and bass player 14 June – Nick Van Eede, Singer/Songwriter, vocalist (Cutting Crew) 29 June – Mark Radcliffe, singer and radio host 5 July – Paul Daniel, conductor 20 July – Mick MacNeil, Scottish keyboard player and songwriter (Simple Minds) 30 July – Kate Bush, singer and songwriter 4 August – Ian Broudie, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Lightning Seeds) 7 August – Bruce Dickinson, musician 13 August – Feargal Sharkey, singer (The Undertones) 6 September – Buster Bloodvessel, vocalist (Bad Manners) 10 September – Siobhan Fahey, singer 21 September – Simon Mayo, radio presenter 14 October – Thomas Dolby, musician 20 October – Mark King, guitarist and singer 27 October – Simon Le Bon, singer (Duran Duran) 10 December – Helen DeMacque, singer (Pepsi & Shirlie) 19 December – Limahl, singer date unknown Patrick Hawes, composer, conductor, organist and pianist. Deaths 11 January – Alec Rowley, English organist and composer (born 1892) 2 April – Tudor Davies, operatic tenor (born 1892) 14 April – Katharine Goodson, pianist (born 1872) 3 May – Roland Cunningham, Australian-born British singer and actor (born 1872) 5 August – Joseph Holbrooke, composer (born 1878) 26 August – Ralph Vaughan Williams, British composer (born 1872) 2 September – Betty Humby Beecham, pianist (born 1908) 24 October – Martin Shaw, composer (born 1875) 27 October – John Wooldridge, film composer (born 1919) (car accident) 2 November – Adam Carse, composer (born 1878)Mr. A. von Ahn Carse's Second Symphony The Musical Times https://books.google.com/books?id=qpUPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA798 1 December 1908 Novello 798 June 28, 2012 LondonSeptember 2019 A 1908 review of Carse's Second Symphony can hardly verify his death in 1958 3 November – Harry Revel, musical theatre composer (b. 1905) 6 November – Francis George Scott, composer (born 1880) 28 December – Reginald Foresythe, jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader (born 1907) date unknown – John Strachan, ballad singer (born 1875) See also 1958 in British television 1958 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1958 References Category:British music by year