• Thumbnail for Clara Butt
    Dame Clara Ellen Butt DBE (1 February 1872 – 23 January 1936) was an English dramatic contralto and one of the most popular singers from the 1890s through...
    13 KB (1,315 words) - 21:16, 19 October 2024
  • postponed. Elgar created a separate song, which was first performed by Madame Clara Butt in June 1902. In fact, only the first of the seven stanzas of the Ode's...
    15 KB (1,842 words) - 08:13, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Clara (given name)
    favourite Clara Bow (1905–1965), American actress Clara Louise Burnham (1854–1927), American novelist Clara Butt (1872–1936), English contralto Clara Calamai...
    11 KB (1,319 words) - 22:45, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Archibald Butt
    and a sister (Clara), and the family was poor. Butt attended various local schools while growing up, including Summerville Academy. Butt's father died when...
    37 KB (4,733 words) - 13:56, 21 May 2024
  • keys for the orchestral version, largely at the request of the contralto Clara Butt.[citation needed] The songs were composed in July 1899 (apart from "In...
    13 KB (1,606 words) - 17:31, 22 May 2024
  • Anthony Butt, New Zealand jockey Brent Butt, Canadian stand-up comedian, actor and writer Charles Butt, American grocer, son of Howard Butt Clara Butt, English...
    6 KB (795 words) - 05:49, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edward Elgar
    approval of the king was confirmed, and Elgar began work. The contralto Clara Butt had persuaded him that the trio of the first Pomp and Circumstance march...
    111 KB (13,855 words) - 10:06, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lawson Butt
    Lawson Butt (4 March 1880 – 14 January 1956) was a British actor and film director of the silent era. His sister was opera singer Clara Butt. Actor The...
    3 KB (169 words) - 01:59, 2 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hydro Majestic Hotel
    performance of Dame Nellie Melba's famously-long farewell tour in 1928. Dame Clara Butt also performed in the venue. The last performance in the room was a small...
    16 KB (1,732 words) - 11:27, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Lost Chord
    close friend and mistress, Fanny Ronalds, and with British contralto Clara Butt. Sullivan was proud of the song and later noted: "I have composed much...
    15 KB (1,780 words) - 18:27, 5 August 2024
  • Brandt (1842–1921) Karin Branzell (1891–1974) Muriel Brunskill (1899–1980) Clara Butt (1872–1936) AnnaMaria Cardinalli (born 1979) Marie-Louise Cébron-Norbens...
    16 KB (1,317 words) - 07:56, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cautionary Tales for Children
    Tales were set to music by Liza Lehmann in 1909; the famous contralto Clara Butt sang the piece in a successful tour of Britain in the same year. Caedmon...
    5 KB (575 words) - 11:26, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Dream of Gerontius
    Angel. Later singers associated with the work include Muriel Foster, Clara Butt, Kathleen Ferrier, and Janet Baker as the Angel, and Heddle Nash, Steuart...
    31 KB (3,996 words) - 03:17, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vocal music
    Kaplan: E♭1 – F♯5 Axl Rose: F1 – B♭6. Beyoncé – G#2 to F6 Cher: C3 – E6 Clara Butt: A2 – B♭5 Daniel Gildenlöw: A1 – A5. Top range may be heard on songs such...
    12 KB (1,027 words) - 10:11, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Swiss Cottage
    English Heritage Blue Plaque. Robert Bevan (painter), 14 Adamson Road Clara Butt (singer), 7 Harley Road Lillie Langtry (actress, socialite, and producer)...
    13 KB (1,182 words) - 16:35, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Blackpool Tower
    performed at the Tower include Arthur Askey, Duke Ellington, Paderewski, Dame Clara Butt, Cleo Laine, Peter Dawson, and the band Busted. Comedian Peter Kay performed...
    40 KB (4,153 words) - 19:56, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abide with Me
    published by Boosey & Co. in 1896; this is the version favoured by Dame Clara Butt. "Woodlands", Walter Greatorex, 1916 The principal theme of the fourth...
    23 KB (2,620 words) - 03:27, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kennerley Rumford
    oratorios, but following his marriage to the well-known contralto singer Clara Butt, he toured with her throughout the English-speaking world singing repertoire...
    5 KB (556 words) - 23:10, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ivor Novello
    singers such as Adelina Patti. Another of his mother's associates was Clara Butt, who taught him to sing "Abide with Me" when he was a boy of six. Novello...
    33 KB (3,674 words) - 04:24, 17 November 2024
  • time, including Australian artist Thea Proctor and British opera singer Clara Butt. Anita Callaway writes that her style was characterised by "strong, dramatic...
    5 KB (438 words) - 20:56, 10 November 2024
  • song has been recorded by many artists, including John McCormack and Clara Butt. The song is alluded to in James Joyce's Ulysses as being sung by Molly...
    8 KB (1,009 words) - 18:41, 10 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dudley House, London
    house for entertaining, hosting performances by singers Nellie Melba and Clara Butt at the house. In 1912, Sir John Hubert Ward bought the building back for...
    8 KB (865 words) - 20:06, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Princess Helena of the United Kingdom
    in her youth she played the piano with Charles Hallé, Jenny Lind and Clara Butt, who were among her personal friends, and she was amongst the first members...
    47 KB (5,489 words) - 05:32, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for God Save the King
    an arrangement of "Land of Hope and Glory" as a solo song performed by Clara Butt at a "Coronation Concert" at the Albert Hall. Novello seized upon the...
    101 KB (11,769 words) - 22:30, 19 November 2024
  • Hawkes. According to the 1897 printing of the sheet music it was sung by Clara Butt to Clifford Harrison. "The Lord is My Light" Solo version accompanied...
    1 KB (169 words) - 14:39, 17 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Nellie Melba
    concerts and the audiences attending was summed up in the advice that Clara Butt said Melba gave her apropos of a planned Australian tour: "Sing 'em muck;...
    55 KB (6,732 words) - 02:25, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Frederic Weatherly
    voluntary. He was buried at Smallcombe Cemetery. A plaque unveiled by Dame Clara Butt commemorates him at 10 Edward St in Bath. The first of Weatherly's well-known...
    12 KB (1,531 words) - 16:51, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for A4200 road
    performed at an Alexandra Palace concert on 15 January 1910, sung by Clara Butt. Southampton Row is a major thoroughfare running northwest–southeast in...
    28 KB (2,610 words) - 11:57, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Monkey Island, Bray
    the Hut, a house on the riverbank facing Monkey Island. Musical stars Clara Butt and Nellie Melba entertained the island's guests. From 1912, Rebecca West...
    11 KB (1,422 words) - 19:55, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Crowmarsh Gifford
    Wallingford Group. Nearby North Stoke was the home of the contralto singer Dame Clara Butt, who died there and was buried locally in St Mary's Church graveyard in...
    7 KB (720 words) - 20:29, 28 November 2023