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''See also 1951 in the United Kingdom'' The cultural year was dominated by the Festival of Britain and the opening of The Royal Festival Hall, the first dedicated concert hall of its size to be built in London since 1893: located on the South bank of the Thames, this was to host concerts by major orchestras from Britain and abroad.〔Foreman, Lewis & Foreman, Susan. ''London: A Musical Gazetteer''. Yale University Press, 2005: pp. 67-8.〕 The Festival itself was a celebration of music, art and theatre. It notably provided an opportunity for the staging of many events during the first Folk music Festival held in Edinburgh, organised with the help of such talents as the American Alan Lomax, the Irish traditional musician Seamus Ennis and the political theatre director Ewan MacColl, who would go on to form the Ballad and Blues Club.〔Peggy Seeger - ''Ewan MacColl: his life and works''〕 Opera and other forms of classical music, while mainly attractive to a middle class audience, were popular in concert and on the radio. Operas sung in English struck a note of patriotism in a nation still recovering from the Second World War and just signed up to the Global War on Communism in Korea and South East Asia. The biggest selling artists on both sides of the Atlantic were Bing Crosby and Doris Day but British singers such as Gracie Fields and Vera Lynn were also very popular, receiving radio play and performing in many live venues. A style of jazz known as Trad or Traditional Jazz, or sometimes called the Dixieland sound was emerging, drawing for its inspiration the old New Orleans Jazz of an earlier period. The luminaries of this music were people like Ken Colyer who had formed the Crane River Jazz Band which included Chris Barber and later a banjo player called Lonnie Donegan who would introduce a musical style from America called skiffle which would influence the musical career of a young John Lennon. However, the seeds of rock and roll could not even be glimpsed in the UK of 1951. Trad jazz was a reaction to the big band jazz of the previous decade with its 20 or sometimes even 40 member orchestras named after the band leaders such as Joe Loss and Kenny Baker. The latter were still popular in 1951 and played a form of jazz called Swing. Paramount among the band leaders of this time was Ted Heath whose Orchestra regularly featured on B.B.C. radio programmes. They were an essential part of the nightclub scene in the big cities of the time and were heavily influenced by their American counterparts such as Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington. The smaller Trad Jazz groups in contrast including such then unknowns as George Melly and Acker Bilk, who had recently moved to London to play with Ken Colyer's band.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography )〕 ==Events== *1 January - Soprano Joan Cross receives the CBE in the 1951 New Year Honours List, while composer William Walton is knighted. Other musicians honoured include chorus master and conductor Herbert Bardgett (OBE). *3 May – A dedication concert opens the Royal Festival Hall, followed the next day by a concert conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent attended by King George VI.〔Foreman, Lewis & Foreman, Susan. (2005): p. 67〕 *7 May – Michael Tippett's ''The Heart's Assurance'' is given its first performance at the Wigmore Hall by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears.〔Mitchell, Donald, Reed, Philip & Cooke, Mervyn (eds) (2004). ''Letters from a Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol 3, 1946–1951''. London: Faber and Faber. p. 534〕〔Carpenter, Humphrey. (1992) ''Benjamin Britten: A Biography''. London: Faber and Faber. p. 296〕 *2 July – 14 July – The seventh annual Cheltenham Music Festival is held in Cheltenham, England, with a performance of Brian Easdale's opera, ''The Sleeping Children'', premieres of the first symphonies of Malcolm Arnold, John Gardner, and Arnold van Wyk, Franz Reizenstein's Serenade for Winds, and Maurice Jacobson's Symphonic Suite, as well as performances of works by Humphrey Searle, Robert Masters, Benjamin Frankel, and Philip Sainton.〔A. J., "Cheltenham Festival", ''The Musical Times'' 92, no. 1303 (Sep., 1951): 416–17.〕 *14 July – 21 July – The Haslemere Music Festival, consisting of six concerts of early music, takes place in Haslemere, England.〔Anon., "The Haslemere Festival", ''The Musical Times'' 92, no. 1301 (July 1951): 312.〕 *17 September – 22 September – The fourth annual Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts opens in Swansea, Wales, with a controversial speech by one of Wales's leading composers, Daniel Jones. The festival was the final component in the Festival of Britain and consisted of seven programmes, featuring Welsh composer Arwel Hughes's new oratorio ''St. David'' and appearances by Victoria de los Ángeles, Zino Francescatti, André Navarra, Walter Susskind, and Jean Martinon.〔Margaret Reece-Evans, "The Swansea Festival", ''Musical Times'' 92, no. 1305 (November): 516.〕 *22 October – Reopening of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with a production of Puccini's ''Turandot'', conducted by Sir John Barbirolli and with Gertrude Grob-Prandl in the title role.〔Anonymous, 'Royal Opera House: "Turandot"', ''The Times'', issue 52139 (Tuesday, October 23, 1951): p. 6, col F.〕 *1 December – premiere of ''Billy Budd'' at the Royal Opera House, conducted by Benjamin Britten.〔Mitchell, Donald (ed) (2004). ''Letters From A Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 3 1946-51''. London: Faber and Faber. 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