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Overview of the events of 1947 in British music
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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]
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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 presenter3 February – Dave Davies , singer-guitarist (The Kinks )26 February – Sandie Shaw , singer5 March – Clodagh Rodgers , singer6 March – Kiki Dee , singer14 March
24 March – Mike Kellie , musician (died 2017 )25 March – Elton John , pianist, singer and songwriter1 April – Robin Scott , singer-songwriter and guitarist3 April – Artie Trezise , Scottish folk guitarist and singer (The Singing Kettle )16 April – Gerry Rafferty , singer-songwriter (died 2011 )18 April – Polly Brown , singer23 April – Glenn Cornick , bass guitarist (Jethro Tull )27 April – Pete Ham , singer-songwriter (Badfinger ) (died 1975 )8 May – Felicity Lott , operatic soprano31 May – Junior Campbell , singer and songwriter1 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 )3 July – Top Topham , guitarist (The Yardbirds )7 July – Rob Townsend , drummer (Family , The Blues Band , The Manfreds , and Axis Point )15 July – Peter Banks , guitarist and songwriter (Yes , The Syn , and Flash ) (d. 2013)19 July – Brian May , guitarist14 August – Maddy Prior , folk singer17 September – Lol Creme , singer (10cc )27 September – Barbara Dickson , singer17 October – Michael McKean (This Is Spinal Tap 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 )
Deaths
11 March – Victor Hely-Hutchinson , South African-born British composer, 45 (pneumonia)[ 10] 2 May – Louie Henri , singer and actress, 833 May – Katie Moss , violinist, pianist, singer, and composer of "The Floral Dance ", 6630 May – Sir Sydney Nicholson , choir director, organist and composer, 722 June – Herman Darewski , composer and conductor, 6424 July – Ernest Austin , composer, 7211 September – Walter Galpin Alcock , organist and composer, 8529 October – Theodore Holland , composer, 6914 December – Will Fyffe , comedian and singer, 62 (fell from hotel room window)[ 11]
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 . ^ David Mason Greene (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6 ^ 4 The Guardian , June 2006
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