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Performance TitleClara Butt and Kennerley Rumford - Grand Concert
Performance Date29 June 1907
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time14:45
Main PerformersMadame Clara Butt,
Mr Kennerley Rumford,
Miss Ada Forrest,
Miss Esta D'argo,
Mr Ben Davies,
Miss Pauline Hook,
Miss Ethel Hook,
Mr Noel Fleming - vocals,

Miss Gertrude Meller,
Mr Tivardar Nachez - violin,
Mr W H Squire - cello,
Mr Arthur E Godfrey - organ
Secondary PerformersMr S Liddle - accompanist
ConductorsS Liddle
Set ListIncluded:
'O Mio Fernando', Donizetti (Butt),
'Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms', L Ronald (Butt),
'Abide With Me', Liddle (Butt),
'Kathleen Mavourneen' (Butt),
Duet 'Nadeshda', G Thomas (Butt, Kennerley Rumford),
Excerpts from 'Il Barbiere', Rossini (Kennerley Rumford),
Song, M Valerie White (Kennerley Rumford),
'Songs of Araby' (Davies),
'Onaway, Awake', S Coleridge-Taylor (Davies),
Performance NotesGrand Farewell Concert, given before Clara Butt and her husband Kennerley Rumford sailed to Australia. This was the Hall debut of Pauline and Ethel Hook, who were Clara Butt's sisters.
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work8738Clara Butt and Kennerley Rumford - Grand 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/4182D'Argo; Esta (fl 1910-1919); British-born Australian soprano
DS/UK/1616Davies; Ben (1858-1943); Welsh tenor
DS/UK/4425Nachez; Tivadar (1859-1930); Hungarian violinist, composer for violin
DS/UK/1578Squire; William Henry' (8 August 1871-17 March 1963); ARCM; British cellist, composer, teacher
DS/UK/4845Godfrey; Arthur Eugene (1868-1939); British organist
DS/UK/4848Pauline and Ethel Hook (fl 1907)
DS/UK/1842Forrest; Ada (fl 1910-1922); South African singer
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