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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 .
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]
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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
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]
^ 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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