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This is a summary of 1939 in music in the United Kingdom. ==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". John Ireland's ''These Things Shall Be'' is performed at the festival's third concert in the Queen's Hall conducted by Constant Lambert.〔Foreman, Lewis. ''The John Ireland Companion''. The Boydell Press, 2011: p. xxxiii〕 *29 April – Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears leave the UK for North America on board the SS ''Ausonia''.〔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〕 *10 June – the New York Philharmonic conducted by Sir Adrian Boult premiere 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. *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.〔Foreman, Lewis & Foreman, Susan. ''London: A Musical Gazetteer''. Yale University Press, 2005: p. 36〕 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「1939 in British music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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