| Biography | Dalton Baker was a baritone, teacher, choir conductor and organist. He was a choirboy at All Saints, Margaret St, London, and a student at the RAM. He was organist-choirmaster at the Chelsea Barracks 1894-6 and at St Mary Magdalen Munster Square, 1896-1903. After 1902, when he sang at a St James Hall Ballad Concert in London, he became known as a baritone of rare musicianship. In 1905, along with Mary Garden, Nellie Melba, and Giovanni Zenatello, he was commanded by Edward VII to sing at Windsor Castle at a state concert in honour of the King of Greece. He toured the USA in 1908 and, with Albani, the British Isles in 1909, and was described as Great Britains greatest baritone. |