1944 in British music

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This is a summary of 1944 in music in the United Kingdom.

Contents

Events

Classical music: new works

Film and Incidental music

Musical theatre

Musical films

Births

Deaths

See also

References

  1. Stuart, Philip. Decca Classical 1929–2009, accessed 15 June 2014.
  2. "Technology Obituaries: Bernard Holden". The Daily Telegraph. London. 2012-10-04. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
  3. 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.
  4. 1 2 3 Polic, Edward F. (1989). The Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press. ISBN   978-0810822696.
  5. "Jubilee Prom". The Yorkshire Post. Leeds. 1944-07-28. from the rural B.B.C. studio to which the concerts have been transferred.
  6. Curtis, Liane (May 1996). "A Case of Identity" (PDF). Musical Times: 20.
  7. Campion, Paul (2005). Ferrier – A Career Recorded. London: Thames Publishing. pp. 43–44. ISBN   0-903413-71-X.
  8. John C. Dressler (March 2013). William Alwyn: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge. p. 71. ISBN   978-1-136-66003-0.
  9. Kevin Sweeney (1999). James Mason: A Bio-bibliography. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 106. ISBN   978-0-313-28496-0.
  10. Jefferson Hunter (5 April 2010). English Filming, English Writing. Indiana University Press. p. 215. ISBN   978-0-253-00414-7.
  11. Jan G. Swynnoe (2002). The Best Years of British Film Music, 1936-1958. Boydell & Brewer. p. 232. ISBN   978-0-85115-862-4.
  12. 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)
  13. Gerald Norris (June 1981). A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland. David & Charles. p. 197. ISBN   978-0-7153-7845-8.
  14. Colin Larkin (1998). The Virgin Encyclopedia of the Blues. Virgin. p. 206. ISBN   978-0-7535-0226-6.
  15. 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.
  16. Joseph Murrells (1978). The Book of Golden Discs . Barrie and Jenkins. p. 104. ISBN   978-0-214-20480-7.
  17. Vernon Fitch (2005). The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia. Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 19. ISBN   978-1-894959-24-7.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Ben Marshall (27 October 2015). The Who: 50 Years: The Official History. HarperCollins. ISBN   978-0-06-239638-9.
  21. Gerald Norris (June 1981). A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland. David & Charles. p. 86. ISBN   978-0-7153-7845-8.
  22. Adam Sweeting (10 June 2023). "Tony McPheen". The Guardian. London.
  23. Colin Larkin (2000). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music. Virgin. p. 289. ISBN   978-0-7535-0427-7.
  24. Laura Williams Macy (2008). The Grove Book of Opera Singers. Oxford University Press. p. 363. ISBN   978-0-19-533765-5.
  25. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 92. ISBN   1-904994-10-5.
  26. The Times obituary, 20 January 1944, p. 7
  27. John Parker (1916). Who's who in the Theatre. Pitman. p. 1867.
  28. Ethel Smyth (16 April 2013). Impressions That Remained - Memoirs of Ethel Smyth. Read Books Limited. p. 10. ISBN   978-1-4465-4542-3.
  29. CWGC Casualty Record.
  30. CWGC entry
  31. 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.
  32. The Strad. Orpheus. 1984. p. 51.
  33. Stephen Lloyd (2001). William Walton: Muse of Fire. Boydell & Brewer. p. 203. ISBN   978-0-85115-803-7.
  34. Wilson library bulletin. 1944. p. 155.