English, Gerald
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- Guardian WWW site, viewed March 4, 2019(Gerald English, tenor, born 6 November 1925, Hull, East Yorkshire; died 6 February 2019; a founder member of the Deller Consort; from 1960 to 1977 he was a professor at the Royal College of Music, at the same period acting as tutor at New College, Oxford; appointed founding director of the Opera Studio at the Victoria College of the Arts in Melbourne (1977-89), where he lectured, taught singing, directed and conducted operas, sometimes from the harpsichord, and also supervised postgraduate vocal studies in Baroque music and movement; from 1990 to 1994 he was a lecturer in the music department of Newcastle University, New South Wales, and he retired from singing in 2004)
- Wikipedia, viewed September 9, 2014(Gerald English; born November 6, 1925; English tenor)
- Vaughan Williams, R. [Mass] [Phonodisc] Mass in G minor, 1961.
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Gerald English (6 November 1925 – 6 February 2019) was an English tenor. He performed operatic and concert repertoire, was a recording artist, and was a sometime academic. He gave many premiere performances of works by composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Hans Werner Henze, Benjamin Britten, Michael Tippett, and Andrew Ford, often under their own direction. He also sang under the batons of Ernest Ansermet, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir John Barbirolli and Sir Thomas Beecham. He sang opera for the Glyndebourne Festival, The Royal Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, and in Sydney, Adelaide, Manchester, Edinburgh, Florence, Rome, Paris, Buenos Aires, Vienna, Barcelona, and Sadler's Wells. He also performed in concerts in America, as well as in cities like Brussels, Rome, Cologne, Stockholm, Lisbon, Amsterdam or Rio de Janeiro.
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