Performance TitleDame Clara Butt and Mr Kennerley Rumford Concert, To Say Good-Bye Before Leaving for their Tour of the World
Performance Date2 July 1921
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time15:00
Main PerformersDame Clara Butt,
Mr Kennerley Rumford - vocals,
Adela Verne - pianoforte
Secondary PerformersGrace Torrens - piano
Set ListPianoforte Solo: Legend 'St. Francis of Paul Walking on the Waves', Liszt (Adela Verne),
Arias: 'Where'er You Walk, More Sweet is That Name', Handel (Kennerley Rumford),
'Amour Viens Rendre' from Orpheus, Gluck (Clara Butt),
'The Monotone', P Cornelius (Clara Butt),
'In the Silence of Night (Sung in Russian), Rachmaninoff (Clara Butt),
'Le Charme, Les Papillons', E Chausson (Clara Butt),
Pianoforte Solo: 'Ballade in A Flat', Chopin (Adela Verne),
Pianoforte Solo: 'Toccata in D', F d'Erlanger (Adela Verne),
'The Soldier', J Ireland (Kennerley Rumford),
'Go not happy day', F Bridge (Kennerley Rumford),
'The Incomplete Lover', G Torrens (Kennerley Rumford),
'Molleen Oge', V Stanford (Kennerley Rumford),
'The Maid of Sweet Brown Knowe', H Hughes (Kennerley Rumford),
'The Home-Coming of the Unknown Warrior', F Leoni (Clara Butt),
'By the Hearthstone', Anon (Clara Butt),
'It Ought To Be So', Herbert Brewer (Clara Butt)
'Women of Inver', Raymond Loughborough (Clara Butt),
'My Child is My Treasure', Herbert Hughes (Clara Butt),
'A Song of Comfort', Teresa del Riego (Clara Butt)
Performance NotesAccording to The Daily Telegraph (4 July 1921) Dame Clara Butt took many encores and at the end six little girls in white came ontot he platform with bouquets of flowers to give to the singer.
Related Archival MaterialHandbill (RAHE/6/1921/26)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/6/1921/26Dame Clara Butt and Mr Kennerley Rumford Concert, To Say Good-bye before leaving for their Tour of the World2 July 1921
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
OnabidoridaibDame Clara Butt and Mr Kennerley Rumford Concert, To Say Good-Bye Before Leaving for their Tour of the World1
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/188Verne; Adela (1877-1952); English-German pianist, composer
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