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Music of the United Kingdom began to develop in the 1950s; from largely insular and derivative forms to become one of the leading centres of popular music in the modern world. By 1950 indigenous forms of British popular music, including folk music, brass and silver bands, music hall and dance bands, were already giving way to the influence of ...
24 September – US musicologist Alan Lomax leaves for a tour of Europe, in the course of which he collects folk music from all over the UK, broadcasts on the BBC, and works with folklorists Peter Douglas Kennedy, Hamish Henderson, and Séamus Ennis, [3] recording among others, Margaret Barry and the songs in Irish of Elizabeth Cronin; Scots ...
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Pages in category "Musicals set in the 1950s" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. ... Bésame mucho, el musical; Blood Brothers (musical)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (musical) Schwestern im Geiste; The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ (musical) The Secret Garden (musical) SherWoodstock; Smike; Something's Afoot; A Song to Sing, O; Spend Spend Spend; Splinters (revue) Standing at the Sky's Edge (musical) Starter for Ten (musical) Sullivan and Gilbert; The Sunshine Girl; Sylvia ...
Billy Elliot the Musical; The Biograph Girl; Bitter Sweet (operetta) Recordings and discography of The Black Mikado; The Black Mikado; Blair on Broadway; Bless the Bride; Blitz! Blondel (musical) Blood Brothers (musical) The Blue Moon (musical) Bob's Your Uncle (musical) Boogie Nights (musical) The Boy (musical) The Boy Friend (musical) The Boy ...
Enjoy these classic tunes from our favorite 1950s musical movies. From ‘Damn Yankees’ to ‘Jailhouse Rock,’ we love these films!
14 January – Ralph Vaughan Williams's Sinfonia antartica is given its first performance in Manchester. [1]3 February – Contralto Kathleen Ferrier, suffering from terminal cancer (unknown to the public), gives a critically acclaimed performance on the first night of a new English-language production of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.