1943 in British music
Overview of the events of 1943 in British music
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This is a summary of 1943 in music in the United Kingdom .
Popular music [ edit ] Classical music: new works [ edit ] Film and Incidental music [ edit ] Musical theatre [ edit ] Musical films [ edit ] 7 January – Richard Armstrong , organist and conductor16 January 28 January – Dick Taylor , bass player, songwriter, and producer (The Rolling Stones , The Pretty Things , and The Mekons )29 January 16 February – Howard Riley , English pianist and composer25 February – George Harrison , guitarist, singer and songwriter (died 2001 )[8] 9 March – David Matthews , composer22 March – Keith Relf , lead vocalist and harmonica player of the Yardbirds (died 1976 )[9] 29 March – Eric Idle , actor, writer, and songwriter16 April 17 April – Elinor Bennett , harpist20 April – Sir John Eliot Gardiner , conductor[11] 25 April – Tony Christie , singer8 May 11 May – Les Chadwick , bass player (Gerry and the Pacemakers ) (died 2019 )14 May – Jack Bruce , vocalist, guitarist and composer (died 2014 )[12] 15 June – Muff Winwood , record producer, songwriter, and bass player17 June – Christopher Brown , composer26 July – Mick Jagger , singer and actor (The Rolling Stones )28 July – Richard Wright , keyboardist (Pink Floyd ) (died 2008)24 August – Dafydd Iwan , musician and politician[13] 6 September – Roger Waters (Pink Floyd)30 September – Philip Moore , organist and composer3 November – Bert Jansch , folk musician (died 2011 )[14] 30 November – Leo Lyons , bassist17 December – Dave Dee , singer (died 2009 )[15] 7 February – Clara Novello Davies , singer, mother of Ivor Novello , 81[16] 28 March – Ben Davies , operatic tenor, 85[17] 14 April – Geoffrey Shaw , church musician and composer, 6325 April – William Edward Wadely , organist and composer, 893 May – Leslie Heward , conductor and composer, 45[18] 30 July – Benjamin Dale , composer, 58[19] 28 November – Arthur Catterall , violinist and conductor, 60[20] 16 December – William Wallace , composer, 80[21] See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ Carner, Mosco (October 1945), "The Committee for the Promotion of New Music", The Musical Times , 86 (1232): 297–299, doi :10.2307/934638 , JSTOR 934638 ^ Payne, Anthony. "Society for the Promotion of New Music" , Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press, retrieved 15 June 2014. (subscription required) ^ Morris, John Vincent (May 2011), Battle for Music: Music and British Wartime Propaganda 1935–1945 (PDF) , University of Exeter, p. 87 ^ a b Kendall, Alan. The Chronicle of Classical Music . Thames & Hudson, 2000: p. 234 ^ 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. 1030 ^ The Guardian , Friday 12 April 2002 "Leaders of the banned" Retrieved on 2008-12-16^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions . Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1943. p. 1513.^ Harrison, George (2002) [1980]. I, Me, Mine ISBN 978-0-7538-1734-6 ^ Murrells, Joseph (1978). The book of golden discs . London: Barrie & Jenkins. p. 199. ISBN 9780214204807 ^ "Ruth Madoc, actress who found fame as the lovelorn Yellowcoat Gladys in the hit sitcom Hi-de-Hi! – obituary" . The Telegraph . 10 December 2022. Retrieved 10 December 2022 .^ Current Biography Yearbook 1990 . H. W. Wilson Company. 1992. p. 234.^ Alan Clayson (26 October 2014). "Jack Bruce obituary" . The Guardian ^ Who's who in European Politics . Bowker-Saur. 1990. p. 313.^ Ken Hunt (January 2015). "Jansch, Herbert [Bert] (1943–2011)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/104258 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) ^ Alan Clayson (9 January 2009). "Obituary: Dave Dee" . The Guardian . London. Retrieved 31 December 2011 . ^ The Encyclopedia Americana: The International Reference Work ^ Robert David Griffith. "Davies, Benjamin ('Ben'; 1858-1943), singer" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 March 2019 . ^ Humphreys, Maggie (1997). Dictionary of composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland . London Herndon, VA: Mansell. p. 160. ISBN 9780720123302 ^ Foreman, Lewis (2008). Benjamin Dale—Music for Viola Archived March 13, 2012, at the Wayback Machine [sleeve notes]. Dutton Epoch. Retrieved 2011-07-13. ^ Norris, Gerald (1981). A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland . Newton Abbot, Devon North Pomfret, Vt: David & Charles. p. 198. ISBN 9780715378458 ^ Barker, Donald J. "William Wallace ", in Grove Music Online , 2001.
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