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This is a summary of 1956 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. ==Events== * February – Release of Shirley Bassey's first single, ''Burn My Candle (At Both Ends)''. *8 May - Benjamin Britten's opera ''Gloriana'', written in 1953, is given its US première in Cincinnati, in concert form, conducted by Josef Krips. *14 May - Ralph Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 8 receives its first London performance.〔Kendall, Alan. ''The Chronicle of Classical Music''. Thames & Hudson, 2000: p. 240〕 *June - Arthur Bliss heads the first delegation by British musicians to the Soviet Union since the end of the Second World War. The party included the violinist Alfredo Campoli, the oboist Léon Goossens, the soprano Jennifer Vyvyan and the pianist Gerald Moore.〔Bliss, Arthur, "A musical embassy to the USSR – Russia through English eyes", ''The Times'', 1 June 1956, p. 11〕 *13 November – The first of a series of Hoffnung Music Festival Concerts takes place at the Royal Festival Hall, in London. *28 November – Yoko Ono, recently divorced from Japanese composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, marries Anthony Cox. *31 December - Flanders and Swann launch their two-man revue ''At the Drop of a Hat''. 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「1956 in British music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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