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Events. 14 January – Ralph Vaughan Williams's Sinfonia Antarctica is given its first performance in Manchester.; 3 February – Kathleen Ferrier, already suffering from terminal cancer, gives a critically acclaimed performance on the first night of a new production of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice at the Royal Opera House.; 6 February – During the second performance of Orfeo at …