1959 in British music

Last updated
List of years in British music
+...

This is a summary of 1959 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.

Contents

Events

Charts

The Official UK Singles Chart

Classical music: new works

Film and Incidental music

Musical theatre

Musical films

Births

Deaths

See also

Related Research Articles

The cultural year was dominated by the Festival of Britain and the opening of The Royal Festival Hall, the first dedicated concert hall of its size to be built in London since 1893: located on the south bank of the Thames, this was to host concerts by major orchestras from Britain and abroad. The Festival itself was a celebration of music, art and theatre. It notably provided an opportunity for the staging of many events seen during the first Folk music Festival held in Edinburgh, organised with the help of such talents as the American Alan Lomax, the Irish traditional musician Seamus Ennis and the political theatre director Ewan MacColl, who would go on to form the Ballad and Blues Club.

This is a summary of 1963 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.

This is a summary of 1960 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.

This is a summary of 1958 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.

This is a summary of 1964 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.

This is a summary of 1956 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.

This is a summary of 1955 in music of all genres in the United Kingdom.

This is a summary of 1954 in music of all genres in the United Kingdom.

This is a summary of 1962 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.

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

This is a summary of 1949 in music in the United Kingdom.

This is a summary of 1948 in music in the United Kingdom.

This is a summary of 1947 in music in the United Kingdom.

This is a summary of 1946 in music in the United Kingdom.

This is a summary of 1945 in music in the United Kingdom.

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

This is a summary of 1942 in music in the United Kingdom.

This is a summary of 1941 in music in the United Kingdom.

This is a summary of 1940 in music in the United Kingdom.

This is a summary of 1939 in music in the United Kingdom.

References

  1. ""1959: Dame Margot Fonteyn released from jail", BBC On This Day". BBC News. 1959-04-22. Retrieved 2009-07-02.
  2. Reed, Philip; Cooke, Mervyn (2010). Letters From A Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 5 1958–1965. Boydell Press. ISBN   978-1-84383-591-2., p. 85
  3. Adrian Wright (2008). The Innumerable Dance: The Life and Work of William Alwyn. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. ISBN   978-1-84383-412-0.
  4. Bland A. The Royal Ballet – the first 50 years. Threshold Books, London, 1981.
  5. "Arthur Bliss – Birthday Song for a Royal Child (1959)". Music Sales Classical. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  6. Philip Rupprecht; Philip Ernst Rupprecht (9 July 2015). British Musical Modernism: The Manchester Group and their Contemporaries. Cambridge University Press. p. 86. ISBN   978-0-521-84448-2.
  7. The Guide to Musical Theatre. Accessed 20 June 2014
  8. "Marillion Official Website" . Retrieved 14 May 2012.
  9. Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (24 October 2016). "Pete Burns, frontman of Dead or Alive, dies aged 57". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Ltd. Retrieved 24 October 2016.