DAME CLARA BUTT.
Mr. Kennerley Rumford, the popular English baritone, was recently interviewed in his home in Hampstead, London, and said: "As a child Dame Clara Butt loved songs with deep full notes; but the great singer also had a big compass and coilld sing soprano and mezzo soprano songs, and her singing mistress generally gave her songs of this type. One day while Dame Clara was amusing herself at home her teacher* who was the headmistress of the high school, called to see her mother. Hearing her. singing from an adjoining room her teacher said 'Your boy's got a nice voice. Dame Clara Butt's mother was very much amused. She explained that the singer was not a boy, but her daughter Clara. The number of booking applications received by- Messrs. J. and N. Tait have exceeded all expectations, and a (jobd season is assured throughout New Zealand. Interest is manifested in the first concert to be given in the Town Hall next Saturday night. The box plan opens at The Bristol next Monday. Die singers will be supported by a celcbra-" ted solo pianist, Mdlle. Marie Antoinette Aussenac, who played before the King at Buckingham Palace three days before sailing. The accompanist with the party is Mr. Roy Ellett, who is considered one of the best pianists in England.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 19, 23 January 1926, Page 9
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