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Performance TitleGrand Concert - Clara Butt and Kennerley Rumford
Performance Date6 June 1914
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time14:30
Main PerformersClara Butt,
Kennerley Rumford - vocals,
Irene Scharrer - pianoforte,
Hollman - violincello,
F A Sewell - organ
Secondary PerformersHarold Craxton
Set ListSolo Organ: 'Hosannah', Th Dubois (F A Sewell),
Solo Pianoforte: 'Rondo Capriccioso', Mendelssohn (Irene Scharrer),
Songs: 'Traum Durch Die Dammerung', R Strauss (Kennerley Rumford),
'Standchen', Brahms (Kennerley Rumford),
'Madchen Mit Dem Rothen Mundchen', R Franz (Kennerley Rumford),
'Largo al Factotum' from Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Kennerley Rumford),
Solo Violoncello: 'Romance', Faure (Hollman),
'Spinning Wheel', Hollman (Hollman),
Songs: 'O Don Fatale' from Don Carlos, Verdi (Clara Butt),
'L'Angelus', Old Breton Air (Clara Butt),
'Mein Madel Hat Einen Rosenmund', Brahms (Clara Butt),
'Creation's Hymn', Beethoven (Clara Butt)
INTERVAL
Solo Organ: 'Andante and Allegro', F E Bache (F A Sewell),
Solo Pianoforte: 'Rhapsody No.12', Liszt (Irene Scharrer),
Songs: 'A Requiem', Harold Craxton (Kennerley Rumford),
'Come You, Mary' (Kennerley Rumford),
'When Child Her Plays', Walford Davies (Kennerley Rumford),
'The Jocund Dance' (Kennerley Rumford),
Songs: 'Johneen', C V Stanford (Clara Butt),
'The Lover's Curse', arr. by Herbert Hughes (Clara Butt),
'I Know My Love' (Clara Butt),
'Fairy Pipers', A H Brewer (Clara Butt),
'Women of Inver', R Loughborough (Clara Butt),
Solo Violoncello: 'Aria', Bach (Hollman),
''Serenade', Blockx (Hollman),
Duet: 'Au Clair de la Lune' with Variations (Les Voiture Versees), A Boieldieu (Clara Butt, ,Kennerley Rumford)
Performance NotesThis concert was to celebrate the return of the famous singing couple to England after a tour of Australia.

Premiere of Harold Craxton's 'A Requiem'.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1914/37),
Handbill (RAHE/6/1914/5)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1914/37Clara Butt and Kennerley Rumford - Grand Concert6 June 1914
RAHE/6/1914/5Clara Butt and Kennerley Rumford - Grand Concert6 June 1914
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
OokaponanitorGrand Concert - Clara Butt and Kennerley Rumford1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/3843Sewell; F A (fl 1890s-1910s); British organist
DS/UK/177Rumford; Robert Kennerley (2 September 1870-9 March 1957); English baritone singer
DS/UK/167Butt; Dame; Clara (1 February 1872-23 January 1936); DBE; English contralto singer
DS/UK/1346Scharrer; Irene (1888-1971); English classical pianist
DS/UK/4158Hollman; Joseph (1852-1927); Dutch cellist
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