1950 in British music

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This is a summary of 1950 in music in the United Kingdom.

Contents

Events

Classical music: new works

Opera

Film and Incidental music

Musical theatre

Musical films

Births

Deaths

See also

References

  1. 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
  2. "Hymnus Paradisi". The Musical Times . 91 (1291): 352–353. September 1950. doi:10.2307/935574. JSTOR   935574.
  3. A recent BBC radio program (May 12, 2012), The First LP in Ireland commemorates Ennis and Lomax's Irish collaboration.
  4. John Szwed, Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World (New York: Viking, 2010), p. 251.
  5. Notable Twentieth Century Pianists by John Gillespie and Anna Gillespie c.1995 p.570
  6. 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.
  7. Operaglass Opera Composers: C
  8. Naxos bio
  9. The Musical Times, 91 (1294): pp. 481–482
  10. Inglis Gundry, "Some of the operas of Inglis Gundry"
  11. Operaglass Opera Composers: L
  12. The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan. 2011. p. 535. ISBN   9781403939104.
  13. Obituary: Toronto Star, Thursday, February 16, 1950, page 28:
  14. 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)
  15. Who was Who. (1941) London: Adam & Charles Black, 2nd ed. 1967, Vol. IV, 1941–1950, pp. 803–804.
  16. Stephen Lloyd (2005). H. Balfour Gardiner. Cambridge University Press. p. 211. ISBN   9780521619226.
  17. Thomas Wood, by Philip Scowcroft
  18. "MACKEY, Percival". Screenonline . British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  19. "Moeran's Unfinished Symphony", Rhoderick McNeill, The Musical Times, Vol. 121, No. 1654 (Dec 1980), pp. 771-773+775-777 JSTOR   962517