Original: He died on 19 August 1944 at Hitchin in Hertfordshire , just over a week after the fiftieth anniversary concert of the Proms , which he had been too ill even to listen to on the radio .
Simplified: He died on 19 August 1944 , just over a week after the fiftieth anniversary concert of the Proms , which he had been too ill even to listen to on the radio .