1944 in British music
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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] Popular music [ edit ] Classical music: new works [ edit ] Film and Incidental music [ edit ] Musical theatre [ edit ] Musical films [ edit ] 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] See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ 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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