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Overview of the events of 1958 in British music
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This is a summary of 1958 in music in the United Kingdom , including the official charts from that year.
Events [ ] 24 January – Paul McCartney makes his first appearance at The Cavern Club in Liverpool with The Quarrymen .[1] 5 February – Michael Tippett 's Symphony No. 2 is first performed in London .[2] 12 March – The UK has not entered the third annual Eurovision Song Contest , after coming 7th previous year. It is the second of the only two occasions in the contest's history that the UK fails to enter.1 April – BBC Radiophonic Workshop created.2 April – Ralph Vaughan Williams 's Symphony No. 9 is premiered in London by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent .10 April – Singer Cleo Laine and bandleader John Dankworth marry.July – Pete Seeger begins performing his new song "The Bells of Rhymney ", based on a lyric by Welsh poet Idris Davies .
29 August – "Move It ", the debut record by Cliff Richard and the Drifters , is released, reaching number 2 on the UK Singles Chart . It is credited with being one of the first authentic rock and roll songs produced outside the United States.[3] 2 –9 December – Decca makes the first complete recording of Peter Grimes Benjamin Britten .[4] Charts [ ] Classical music: new works [ ] William Alwyn – Fanfare for a Joyful Occasion , for orchestraMalcolm Arnold – Sinfonietta No. 2, for orchestra, Op. 65Lennox Berkeley
Concerto, for piano and double string orchestra, Op. 46
Poems of W.H. Auden (5), for soprano or tenor and piano, Op. 53Ronald Binge – "The Watermill "[5] Arthur Bliss – The Lady of Shallott (ballet)Cornelius Cardew – Piano Sonata No. 3Daniel Jones – The Country Beyond the Stars (cantata)Peter Maxwell Davies – Prolation, for orchestra Peter Racine Fricker - A Vision of Judgement (chorus and orchestra)Thea Musgrave – String QuartetEdmund Rubbra – Violin ConcertoIan Parrott – Concerto for English horn (cor anglais) and orchestraHumphrey Searle - Symphony No 2Michael Tippett - Symphony No 2William Walton - Partita for orchestra Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony No. 9 Grace Williams – Six Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins for contralto and string sextetOpera [ ] Film and Incidental music [ ] Musical theatre [ ] Musical films [ ] Births [ ] 8 January – Steve Garvey , bass guitarist (Buzzcocks )24 January – Jools Holland , pianist, bandleader and television presenter21 February – Jake Burns , punk singer23 February – David Sylvian vocalist (Japan)1 March – Nik Kershaw , singer-songwriter5 March – Andy Gibb , English-born singer (died 1988 )8 March – Gary Numan , British singer9 March – Martin Fry , vocalist of ABC 18 March – Neil Brand , British writer, pianist and composer11 April – Stuart Adamson (Big Country ) (d. 2001)12 April – Will Sergeant , guitarist (Echo & the Bunnymen )15 April – Benjamin Zephaniah , writer and musician25 April – Fish , Scottish singer17 May – Alan Rankine , musician and producer18 May – Toyah Willcox , actress and singer25 May – Paul Weller , singer-songwriter11 June – Barry Adamson , singer and bass player29 June – Mark Radcliffe , singer and radio host5 July – Paul Daniel , conductor20 July – Mick MacNeil , Scottish keyboard player and songwriter (Simple Minds )30 July – Kate Bush , singer and songwriter4 August – Ian Broudie , singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer7 August – Bruce Dickinson , musician13 August – Feargal Sharkey , singer (The Undertones )6 September – Buster Bloodvessel , vocalist (Bad Manners )10 September – Siobhan Fahey , singer21 September – Simon Mayo , radio presenter14 October – Thomas Dolby , musician20 October – Mark King , guitarist and singer27 October – Simon Le Bon , singer (Duran Duran )10 December – Helen DeMacque , singer (Pepsi & Shirlie )19 December – Limahl , singerDeaths [ ] 11 January – Alec Rowley , English organist and composer (born )2 April – Tudor Davies , operatic tenor (born )14 April – Katharine Goodson , pianist (born )3 May – Roland Cunningham , Australian-born British singer and actor (born )5 August – Joseph Holbrooke , composer (born )26 August – Ralph Vaughan Williams , British composer (born )2 September – Betty Humby Beecham , pianist (born 1908 )24 October – Martin Shaw , composer (born )27 October – John Wooldridge , film composer (born 1919 ) (car accident)2 November – Adam Carse , composer (born )[8] [failed verification 3 November – Harry Revel , musical theatre composer (b. 1905 )6 November – Francis George Scott , composer (born )28 December – Reginald Foresythe , jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader (born 1907 )date unknown – John Strachan , ballad singer (born )See also [ ] References [ ]
^ Spitz, Bob (2005). The Beatles: The Biography ISBN 978-0-316-80352-6 ^ Kendall, Alan (2000). The Chronicle of Classical Music . London: Thames & Hudson. p. 243. ^ "Sold on Song Top 100" . BBC. Retrieved 2007-11-18 .^ Reed, Philip & Cooke, Mervyn (eds). Letters From a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 5 1958–1965 . The Boydell Press (2010). p. 67
^ Hyperion Records . Accessed 23 April 2014^ Searle, Humphrey (1958). The Diary of a Madman. London and Mainz: Schott and Co.
^ [1] Archived 2017-08-25 at the Wayback Machine Renown Pictures Ltd, PO Box 592,Kings Langley, Herts WD4 4DB^ "Mr. A. von Ahn Carse's Second Symphony" . The Musical Times . London: Novello: 798. 1 December 1908. Retrieved June 28, 2012 . show Music of the United Kingdom
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