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Events

April – a left-wing Festival of Music for the People is held in London. Participants include a pageant for 500 singers and 100 dancers featuring the American singer Paul Robeson as soloist, a balalaika orchestra playing Russian tunes, music by Alan Bush, and Benjamin Britten's Ballad of Heroes with words by W.H. Auden and Randall Swingler, performed by "Twelve Co-operative and Labour Choirs".^[1] John Ireland's These Things Shall Be is performed at the festival's third concert in the Queen's Hall conducted by Constant Lambert.^[2]

29 April – Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears leave the UK for North America on board the SS Ausonia.^[3]

10 June – the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult, gives the first public performance of Arthur Bliss's Piano Concerto in B flat with soloist Solomon; Arnold Bax's Symphony No. 7; and Ralph Vaughan Williams' Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus, in a concert held at Carnegie Hall.

7 December – William Walton's Violin Concerto is given its première in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, by Jascha Heifetz, for whom it was written.^[4]

The Nordstrom Sisters are the resident act at the Ritz Hotel in London.

The National Gallery, with all its pictures taken to a secure location at the outbreak of war, becomes home of popular lunchtime concerts organised by pianist Myra Hess, assisted by the composer Howard Ferguson and with the enthusiastic backing of the gallery's director Sir Kenneth Clark.^[5]

Popular music

"Kiss Me Goodnight, Sergeant Major" Art Noel, Don Pelosi.^[6]

"On The Outside Always Lookin' In" w.m. Michael Carr^[7]

"Somewhere In France With You" w.m. Michael Carr

"South Of The Border" w.m. Jimmy Kennedy & Michael Carr

"We'll Meet Again" w. Hughie Charles m. Ross Parker

"We're Going to Hang out the Washing on the Siegfried Line" w.m. Jimmy Kennedy & Michael Carr

"There'll Always Be an England" w.m. Ross Parker & Hughie Charles

"Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye" by Harry Parr Davies, performed by Gracie Fields^[8]

Classical music: new works

Arnold Bax – Pastoral Fantasia for Viola and String Orchestra

Arthur Bliss – Piano Concerto in B flat

Benjamin Britten –

Les Illuminations
Violin Concerto

Herbert Howells – Concerto for Strings

William Lloyd Webber

Lento in E major for string orchestra
Waltz in E minor for orchestra

William Walton – Violin Concerto

Film and Incidental music

Richard Addinsell (orch. Roy Douglas) –

Goodbye, Mr Chips.
The Lion Has Wings, starring Merle Oberon and Ralph Richardson.

Eric Fenby – Jamaica Inn directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara.

Ernest Irving – Come On George!, starring George Formby, Patricia Kirkwood and Joss Ambler.

Musical theatre

20 January – Magyar Melody London production opened at His Majesty's Theatre and ran for 105 performances

23 March – The Dancing Years London production opened at the Drury Lane Theatre and ran for 187 performances

21 April The Little Revue London revue opened at The Little Theatre and ran for 415 performances

3 November – Runaway Love opened at the Saville Theatre on November 3 and ran for 195 performances

14 November – Black Velvet London revue opened at the Hippodrome Theatre and ran for 620 performances

21 December – Shephard's Pie London revue opened at the Princes Theatre on December 21

22 December Haw-Haw (Music: Harry Parr Davies Words: Phil Park Script: Max Miller & Ben Lyon) opened at the Holborn Empire. Starring Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon and Max Miller.

Births

8 March – Robert Tear, tenor (died 2011)

16 April – Dusty Springfield, singer (died 1999)

3 May – Jonathan Harvey, composer (died 2012)

17 July – Spencer Davis, singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Spencer Davis Group)

18 July – Brian Auger, English keyboard player (Brian Auger and the Trinity, CAB, and The Steampacket)

19 August – Ginger Baker, drummer

30 August – John Peel, influential disc jockey (died 2004)

8 December – Sir James Galway, flautist

13 December – Eric Flynn, British actor and singer (died 2002)

Deaths

January – Leonard N. Fowles, organist, conductor and composer, 68^[10]

25 January – Charles Davidson Dunbar, soldier and bagpipe player, 68

8 March – Gertrude Eaton, singer, 78

25 April – John Foulds, composer, 58 (cholera)^[11]

20 July – Sir Dan Godfrey, conductor, 71

27 October – Nelly Bromley, singer and actress, 89

9 November – Charles Goulding, operatic tenor

19 December – Eric Fogg, composer and conductor, 36 (killed by train)^[12]

date unknown – Colin Wark, film composer

References

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2. ^Foreman, Lewis. The John Ireland Companion. The Boydell Press, 2011: p. xxxiii
3. ^Mitchell, Donald (ed) (1991). Letters From A Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 1 1923–39. London: Faber and Faber. {{ISBN|0-571-15221X}}. p. 318
4. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/12/obituaries/jascha-heifetz-is-dead-at-86-a-virtuoso-since-childhood.html?pagewanted=2|title=Jascha Heifetz Is Dead at 86; A Virtuoso Since Childhood|author=Harold C. Schonberg|date=December 12, 1987|publisher=New York Times|access-date=31 May 2017}}
5. ^Foreman, Lewis & Foreman, Susan. London: A Musical Gazetteer. Yale University Press, 2005: p. 36
6. ^{{cite book|author=Frank Edward Huggett|title=Goodnight Sweetheart: Songs and Memories of the Second World War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MvGeAAAAMAAJ|year=1979|publisher=W. H. Allen|isbn=978-0-491-02308-5}}
7. ^{{cite book | last =Rubinstein (ed.) | first =William D. | authorlink = | title =The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History | publisher = | series = | volume = | edition = | date = 2011-01-27| location = | page =143 | language = | url =https://books.google.com/?id=_T_HCg17ufIC&pg=PA143&lpg=PA143&dq=%22Maurice+Alfred+Cohen%22#v=onepage&q=%22Maurice%20Alfred%20Cohen%22&f=false | doi = | id = | isbn = 9780230304666| mr = | zbl = | jfm = }}
8. ^Stephen C. Shafer, [https://books.google.com/books?id=t1fpFBVnfvoC&pg=PA186&dq=Harry+Parr-Davies&hl=en&ei=UWpQTsyFEsWt8gOiwIy3Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Harry%20Parr-Davies&f=false British Popular Films, 1929–1939: the Cinema of Reassurance] (Oxford: Routledge, 1997), 186.
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/58794 |title=BFI | Film & TV Database | YES, MADAM? (1938) |publisher=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk |date=2009-04-16 |accessdate=2012-03-16}}
10. ^The Musical Times, Volume 49, February 1, 1908, page 118
11. ^{{cite news|last=Wright|first=Roger|title=John Foulds' Indian summer [print version: A composer's Indian summer]|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/09/15/bmindian115.xml|publisher=The Daily Telegraph (Review)|date=2007-09-15}}
12. ^The Argus, 30 March 2006{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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