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This is a summary of 1941 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
Popular music
Classical music: new works
Opera
Film and Incidental music
Musical films
Musical theatre
Births
- 12 January – Long John Baldry, R&B singer (died 2005)[5]
- 4 February – John Steel, drummer (The Animals and Eggs over Easy)
- 14 February – Big Jim Sullivan, English guitarist (died 2012)[6]
- 5 April – Dave Swarbrick, folk musician (died 2016)[7]
- 11 April – Arthur Davies, operatic tenor (died 2018)[8]
- 13 April – Margaret Price, soprano
- 23 April – Ed Stewart, disc jockey (died 2016)
- 3 May – Paul Ferris, film composer and actor (died 1995)
- 9 May – Pete Birrell, bass player (Freddie and the Dreamers)
- 11 May – Eric Burdon, R&B singer (The Animals)
- 21 May – Martin Carthy, folk musician
- 9 June – Jon Lord, keyboard player and composer (died 2012)
- 12 June – Reg Presley, singer and songwriter (died 2013)
- 30 June
- 7 July – Jim Rodford, bass player (The Kinks, The Swinging Blue Jeans, The Zombies, The Kast Off Kinks and Argent)
- 17 July – Spencer Davis, instrumentalist (The Spencer Davis Group)
- 20 August – Anne Evans, operatic soprano
- 10 September – Christopher Hogwood, conductor and harpsichordist
- 27 October – Don Partridge, singer-songwriter (died 2010)
- 2 November – Brian Poole, singer (The Tremeloes)
- 15 November – Rick Kemp, singer-songwriter, bass player and producer (Steeleye Span)
- 24 November – Pete Best, rock drummer (The Beatles original lineup)
- 27 December
- 29 December – Ray Thomas, rock flautist and singer-songwriter (The Moody Blues) (died 2018)
Deaths
- 10 January – Frank Bridge, composer, 61
- 19 February – Sir Hamilton Harty, conductor and composer, 61
- 11 March – Sir Henry Walford Davies, composer, 71
- 27 March – Stewart Macpherson, music teacher and writer, 75[9]
- 16 August – John Coates, operatic tenor, 76
- date unknown – William Hargreaves, music hall composer
See also
References
- ^ Mitchell, Donald (ed) (1991). Letters From A Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 2 1939–45. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-160581. p. 629
- ^ Lloyd, Stephen (2001). William Walton: Muse of Fire. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-0-85115-803-7. p. 173
- ^ "New BBC Director of Music", The Times, 1 April 1942, p. 7
- ^ Mitchell, Donald (ed) (1991). p. 961
- ^ Dave Laing (23 July 2005). "Long John Baldry". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
- ^ Dave Laing (3 October 2012). "Big Jim Sullivan". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
- ^ Brock Helander (1 January 2001). The Rockin' 60s: The People Who Made the Music. Schirmer Trade Books. p. 239. ISBN 978-0-85712-811-9.
- ^ "Arthur Davies (1941–2018)", English National Opera, 9 August 2018
- ^ Shaw, Watkins. "Macpherson, (Charles) Stewart". Grove Music Online (subscription access)
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