29 April - Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears leave the UK for North America on board the SS Ausonia [REF].
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.