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Performance TitleDame Clara Butt Concert
Performance Date7 October 1922
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time15:00
Main PerformersDame Clara Butt,
Astra Desmond,
Kennerley Rumford - vocals,
Melsa - violin,
Adela Verne - piano
Secondary PerformersGrace Torrens - accompanist
Set ListPianoforte Solo: 'Two Hungarian Dances', Brahms (Adela Verne),
Arias: 'Where'er You Walk' and 'More Sweet is That Name', Handel (Kennerley Rumford),
Violin Solo: 'Old Irish Air', Melsa-Cedric Sharpe (Melsa),
Violin Solo: 'Zephir', Hubay (Melsa),
'Chere Nuit', Alfred Bachelet (Astra Desmond),
Pianoforte Solo: 'Liebestod' from Tristan and Isolde, Wagner, arr. Liszt (Adela Verne),
'Vagabond', John Ireland (Kennerley Rumford),
'Go Not, Happy Day', Frank Bridge (Kennerley Rumford),
'Over Here', Charles Wood (Kennerley Rumford),
'Captain Danny', Raymond Loughborough (Kennerley Rumford),
'Le Nil', Xavier Leroux, (Astra Desmond, Melsa),
Violin Solo: 'Introduction et Tarantelle', Sarasate (Melsa),
Selected Items: Announced from the platform (Clara Butt)
Performance NotesLondon premiere of Raymond Loughborough's 'Captain Danny'
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1922/38),
Handbill (RAHE/6/1922/26)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/6/1922/26Clara Butt Concert7 October 1922
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
OzapohokihozDame Clara Butt Concert1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/167Butt; Dame; Clara (1 February 1872-23 January 1936); DBE; English contralto singer
DS/UK/177Rumford; Robert Kennerley (2 September 1870-9 March 1957); English baritone singer
DS/UK/191Melsa; Daniel (fl 1913-1922); Russian-Jewish violinist
DS/UK/188Verne; Adela (1877-1952); English-German pianist, composer
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