This is a summary of 1950 in music in the United Kingdom .
List of years in British music
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9 March – UK premiere of Britten's Spring Symphony Royal Albert Hall , London, conducted by Eduard van Beinum .[ 1] September – Herbert Howells ' Hymnus Paradisi Three Choirs Festival ; the work had been written in 1938, shortly after the death of the composer's young son.[ 2]
24 September – US musicologist Alan Lomax leaves for a tour of Europe, in the course of which he collects folk music from all over the UK, broadcasts on the BBC, and works with folklorists Peter Douglas Kennedy , Hamish Henderson , and Séamus Ennis ,[ 3] Margaret Barry and the songs in Irish of Elizabeth Cronin ; Scots ballad singer Jeannie Robertson ; and Harry Cox of Norfolk.[ 4] Jazz musician John Dankworth forms the Dankworth Seven, with Jimmy Deuchar (trumpet), Eddie Harvey (trombone), Don Rendell (tenor sax), Bill Le Sage (piano), Eric Dawson (bass) and Tony Kinsey (drums).
Gracie Fields ' radio show transfers from the BBC to Radio Luxembourg, where it is sponsored by Wisk soap powder.Pianist Moura Lympany divorces her husband Colin Defries .[ 5]
Harrison & Harrison begin work on a 7,866 pipe organ destined for the Royal Festival Hall , working to a design by Ralph Downes .[ 6] Classical music: new works
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Film and Incidental music
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21 January – Billy Ocean (real name Leslie Charles), singer and songwriter12 February – Steve Hackett , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Genesis , Quiet World , and GTR )24 February – Howard Griffiths , conductor13 February — Peter Gabriel , singer and songwriter19 February — Andy Powell , musician (Wishbone Ash )9 March – Howard Shelley , pianist and conductor10 March – Stephen Oliver , opera composer (died 1992 in British music )20 April – Ray Hodson (Line Dance Instructor – UK)22 April — Peter Frampton , singer and songwriter3 May — Mary Hopkin , singer13 May – Danny Kirwan , guitarist, singer and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)22 May — Bernie Taupin , songwriter1 June – Tom Robinson , singer and songwriter5 June – Barbara Gaskin , singer16 June – Andrew Ball , pianist23 June – Nicholas Cleobury , conductor27 August – Neil Murray , bass guitarist14 September – Paul Kossoff , guitarist (Free ) (died 1976 )[ 12] 26 September – Simon Brint , comedy musician and composer (died 2011 )18 November – Graham Parker , singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Rumour )
14 February – Robert Graham Manson , violinist, pianist and composer, 66[ 13] 26 February – Sir Harry Lauder , singer, comedian and songwriter, 79[ 14] 19 April – Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners , composer, writer and artist, 6613 May – Bruno Siegfried Huhn , organist and composer, 786 June – Alfred Edward Moffat , composer and collector of music, 86[ 15] 28 June – H. Balfour Gardiner , musician, composer and teacher, 72 (stroke)[ 16] 14 October – Florence Aylward , composer, 8826 October – Evelyn Suart , pianist, 6919 November – Thomas Wood , composer, 57 (heart attack)[ 17] 23 November – Percival Mackey , pianist, composer and bandleader, 56[ 18] 1 December – Ernest John Moeran , composer, 55 (cerebral haemorrhage)[ 19] 23 December – John Rippiner Heath , violinist and composer, 6325 December – Edward d'Evry , organist and composer, 81"date unknown" – Kate Carney , singer and comedian, 80
^ 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. 533
^ "Hymnus Paradisi ". The Musical Times 91 (1291): 352–353. September 1950. doi :10.2307/935574 . JSTOR 935574 . ^ A recent BBC radio program (May 12, 2012), The First LP in Ireland
^ John Szwed, Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World (New York: Viking, 2010), p. 251.
^ Notable Twentieth Century Pianists by John Gillespie and Anna Gillespie c.1995 p.570 ^ Webb, Stanley; Patrick Russill. "Ralph Downes" . Grove Music Online (subscription access) . Oxford University Press . Archived from the original on 2009-01-06. Retrieved 2007-04-30 . ^ Operaglass Opera Composers: C ^ Naxos bio ^ The Musical Times , 91 (1294): pp. 481–482^ Inglis Gundry, "Some of the operas of Inglis Gundry" ^ Operaglass Opera Composers: L ^ The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History . Palgrave Macmillan. 2011. p. 535. ISBN 9781403939104 ^ Obituary: Toronto Star, Thursday, February 16, 1950, page 28:
^ Russell, Dave. "Lauder, Sir Henry (1870–1950)" , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004, online edition, January 2011, accessed 27 April 2014 (subscription required)
^ Who was Who. (1941) London: Adam & Charles Black, 2nd ed. 1967, Vol. IV, 1941–1950, pp. 803–804.
^ Stephen Lloyd (2005). H. Balfour Gardiner . Cambridge University Press. p. 211. ISBN 9780521619226 ^ Thomas Wood, by Philip Scowcroft ^ "MACKEY, Percival" . Screenonline British Film Institute . Archived from the original on 13 January 2009. Retrieved 23 April 2012 .^ "Moeran's Unfinished Symphony", Rhoderick McNeill, The Musical Times , Vol. 121, No. 1654 (Dec 1980), pp. 771-773+775-777 JSTOR 962517
