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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]
date unknown
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 presenter
3 February – Dave Davies , singer-guitarist (The Kinks )
26 February – Sandie Shaw , singer
5 March – Clodagh Rodgers , singer
6 March – Kiki Dee , singer
14 March
24 March – Mike Kellie , musician (died 2017 )
25 March – Elton John , pianist, singer and songwriter
1 April – Robin Scott , singer-songwriter and guitarist
3 April – Artie Trezise , Scottish folk guitarist and singer (The Singing Kettle )
16 April – Gerry Rafferty , singer-songwriter (died 2011 )
18 April – Polly Brown , singer
23 April – Glenn Cornick , bass guitarist (Jethro Tull )
27 April – Pete Ham , singer-songwriter (Badfinger ) (died 1975 )
8 May – Felicity Lott , operatic soprano
31 May – Junior Campbell , singer and songwriter
1 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 )[ 10]
3 July – Top Topham , guitarist (The Yardbirds )
7 July – Rob Townsend , drummer (Family , The Blues Band , The Manfreds , and Axis Point )
12 July – Wilko Johnson , pub rock guitarist, singer-songwriter (Dr. Feelgood ) and actor (d. 2022)
15 July – Peter Banks , guitarist and songwriter (Yes , The Syn and Flash ) (d. 2013)
19 July – Brian May , guitarist
14 August – Maddy Prior , folk singer
17 September – Lol Creme , singer (10cc )
27 September – Barbara Dickson , singer
25 October – Glenn Tipton , rock guitarist
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 )
31 December – Marcus Blunt , composer
Deaths
11 March – Victor Hely-Hutchinson , South African-born British composer, 45 (pneumonia)[ 11]
2 May – Louie Henri , singer and actress, 83
3 May – Katie Moss , violinist, pianist, singer, and composer of "The Floral Dance ", 66
30 May – Sir Sydney Nicholson , choir director, organist and composer, 72
2 June – Herman Darewski , composer and conductor, 64
24 July – Ernest Austin , composer, 72
11 September – Walter Galpin Alcock , organist and composer, 85
29 October – Theodore Holland , composer, 69
14 December – Will Fyffe , comedian and singer, 62 (fell from hotel room window)[ 12]
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 .
^ Tortorici, Frank (18 July 2000). "Mike + the Mechanics' Paul Young Dies" . MTV . Archived from the original on January 17, 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2016 .
^ David Mason Greene (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers . Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 1318. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6 .
^ 4 The Guardian , June 2006
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