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This is a summary of 1942 in music in the United Kingdom. ==Events== * January/February – Serge Koussevitzky commissions Benjamin Britten to compose an opera, ''Peter Grimes'', one of the first commissions given by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation.〔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. pp. 1017, 1019〕 * 16 March – Britten sails back to England with Peter Pears on board MS ''Axel Johnson''.〔Mitchell (1991): p. 630〕 * 20 March – Vera Lynn records ''The White Cliffs of Dover'' with Mantovani at Decca Records's West Hampstead studio. *26 August – In an act of wartime cultural diplomacy, John Ireland, Granville Bantock, Arnold Bax and Benjamin Britten deliver a letter to the wife of the Soviet Ambassador sending greetings from British composers to their Soviet counterparts.〔Foreman, Lewis. ''The John Ireland Companion''. The Boydell Press, 2011: p. xxxiii〕 * November/December - E.J. Moeran's Symphony is the first British work to be recorded under the auspices of the British Council. The recording is made in Manchester by the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Leslie Heward. 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「1942 in British music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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