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This is a summary of 1950 in music in the United Kingdom. ==Events== *9 March - UK premiere of ''Spring Symphony'' at the Royal Albert Hall, London, conducted by Eduard van Beinum.〔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〕 *September - Herbert Howells' ''Hymnus Paradisi'' receives its première at the Three Choirs Festival; the work had been written in 1938, shortly after the death of the composer's young son. *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,〔A recent BBC radio program (May 12, 2012) , ( ''The First LP in Ireland'' ) commemorates Ennis and Lomax's Irish collaboration.〕 recording among others, Margaret Barry and the songs in Irish of Elizabeth Cronin; Scots ballad singer Jeannie Robertson; and Harry Cox of Norfolk.〔John Szwed, ''Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World'' (New York: Viking, 2010), p. 251.〕 *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.〔(Notable Twentieth Century Pianists by John Gillespie and Anna Gillespie c.1995 p.570 )〕 *Harrison & Harrison begin work on a 7,866 pipe organ destined for the Royal Festival Hall, working to a design by Ralph Downes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1950 in British music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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