AstraDesmond CBE (10 April 1893 – 16 August 1973) was a British contralto of the early and middle twentieth century. AstraDesmond was born Gwendoline...
Stiles-Allen, Elsie Suddaby, Eva Turner Contraltos: Muriel Brunskill, AstraDesmond, Mary Jarred, Margaret Balfour Tenors: Heddle Nash, Frank Titterton...
of influential musicians as presidents, including Cécile Chaminade, AstraDesmond, Alma Goatley, Myra Hess, Rosa Newmarch, Evelyn Suart and Elizabeth...
fifteen other leading English singers including another Marchesi pupil, AstraDesmond. In the same year Brunskill sang under Wood in a rare performance of...
August 6 – Memphis Minnie, blues singer and guitarist, 76 August 16 – AstraDesmond, operatic contralto, 80 August 17 Jean Barraqué, French classical composer...
(during heart surgery) 9 August – Donald Peers, singer, 66 16 August – AstraDesmond, contralto, 80 6 September – Sir William Henry Harris, composer, 90...
September 1936 as part of the 34th Norwich Festival. The performers were AstraDesmond (contralto), Roy Henderson (baritone), the Festival Chorus and the London...
He was the first son of Sir Thomas Neame and the British contralto AstraDesmond CBE. He was the nephew of Sir Philip Neame. Neame was involved in fruit...
Festivals in Gloucester and Worcester, along with soloists Agnes Nicholls, AstraDesmond, Horace Stevens, Norman Allin, John Coates and Olga Haley. He also sang...
Smyth's Mass in D at the Royal Albert Hall, with Herbert Heyner and AstraDesmond, with Malcolm Sargent conducting and sang Polly in John Gay's The Beggar's...
plus Scott's Idyllic Phantasy for voice, oboe and cello, (performed by AstraDesmond, Arthur Foreman and Cedric Sharpe respectively). "[The orchestra] has...
instruments, which were taken by Joyce, Eric Coates, Thomas Armstrong, AstraDesmond, Gerard Hoffnung, Joseph Cooper, and other prominent people, all conducted...
Bullock CVO 1947-48 Harold Craxton OBE 1948-49 Henry Havergal OBE 1949-50 AstraDesmond CBE 1950-51 Edric Cundell CBE 1951-52 Herbert Howells CH CBE 1952-53...
the same year she appeared as a soloist at the Royal Albert Hall with AstraDesmond and others in the London Ballads Concerts series. She sang at Rutland...
Wigmore Hall, London. Song recital; all works by Servine. Performers: AstraDesmond (contralto), John McKenna (singer), Frederick Riddle (viola), Marthe...
countries including France, Germany, Spain and Britain. The singer AstraDesmond praised Branco for "his magnificent musicianship, his immersion in the...
Oct 1950 J. S. Bach Mass in B minor Soprano Isobel Baillie, Contralto AstraDesmond, Tenor Eric Greene, Bass Norman Walker. Continuo Dr. Charles Thornton...
Thomas William Deeves, MC, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Food. AstraDesmond (Gwendolyn Mary Neame), Singer. Colonel Wallace Charles Devereux, FRAeS...
the chairman of the Carl Rosa Trust, Sir Donald Wolfit, and trustees AstraDesmond and Norman Allin. The Arts Council, which was accused in the House of...
support and performances from the conductor Henry Wood, the singer AstraDesmond and the pianist Benno Moiseiwitsch. Writing in 1924, Arthur Eaglefield...
instructed such singers as British contraltos Muriel Brunskill and AstraDesmond. She premiered a work of Cécile Chaminade in England in the 1890s. Martin...
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