PETER
DAWSON (BASS-BARITONE) (ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 31 JANUARY, 1882 – SYDNEY,
AUSTRALIA, 27 SEPTEMBER, 1961)
He was known in his youth as an athlete, specifically as a boxer. He decided to study singing after winning a gold medal at an amateur competition in Ballarat. He came to England in 1902 and became a student of Sir Charles Santley. Around 1904, he traveled to England, performing ballad concerts everywhere under the pseudonym Hector Grant and participating as an assisting artist on tours with famous singers such as Emma Albani. In 1909, he completed a highly successful tour of Australia. During the First World War, he appeared in numerous charity concerts in both England and Australia. In 1926, he gave a series of concerts at Wigmore Hall and Aeolian Hall in London. In 1931, he traveled to Australia with pianist Mark Hambourg. He made eight major tours through Australia and New Zealand, as well as several trips to South Africa. He also performed in India, Japan, and China. He rarely appeared on stage, with notable exceptions in 1907 and 1909 at Covent Garden in London, where he was a comprimario in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. In 1955, he sang on English radio and continued to make records well into his seventies. He was the teacher of soprano Joan Cross and published an autobiography entitled Fifty Years of Song (London, 1951). Additionally, he worked as a composer of songs and ballads, editing them under the pseudonym P. MacCall.
Chronology of some
appearances
1907 London Covent
Garden
1909 London Covent Garden
TRACKLIST
1. Boots (McCall) HMV
Bb 16955-1 6-6-29 C Studio, Small Queen’s Hall, London
2. Carmen (Bizet)
Toreador song HMV 02904 HO 4571 af 26-10-20
3. Don Juan's
serenade (Tchaikovsky) HMV C1327 Cc 10502 1927-03-30
4. Hope the
Hornblower (Ireland) HMV HO 5697 ae 31-5-20
5. I have twelve oxen
(John Ireland) HMV HO 5577 -2ae 5-3-20
6. Ivanho Woo thou
thy snowflake (Sullivan) HMV Cc 1472-1 15-6-22 Recordings made at Hayes, Room 1
7. Lovely, kind and
kindly loving Op 16 (Gustav Holst) (piano J. Brath) HMV Bb
2948-2 7-5-23 Recordings made at Hayes, Room 1
8. Messiah (Handel)
Why do the Nations HMV C2694 2B 5939 1934-05-08
9. Philemon and
Baucis (Gounod) Vulcan’s song HMV Bb 19282-1 1-5-30 C Studio, Small Queen’s
Hall, London
10. Songs of Travel
Bright is the ring of words (Ralph Vaughan Williams) (piano Mme Adami) HMV Bb
1253-1 26-4-22 Recordings made at Hayes, Room 1
11. Songs of Travel
Silent noon (Ralph Vaughan Williams) (piano Mme Adami) HMV Bb 1252-2 26-4-22
Recordings made at Hayes, Room 1
12. Sons of the Sea
(S. Coleridge-Taylor) HMV Bb 1373-1 23-5-22 Recordings made at Hayes, Room 1
13. Stabat Mater
(Rossini) Through the darkness HMV Cc 20368-1 5-11-30 C Studio, Small Queen’s
Hall, London
14. The Creation
(Haydn) Rolling in foaming billows HMV Cc 20369-1 5-11-30 C Studio, Small
Queen’s Hall, London
15. The little
Admiral (Myddleton) HMV 17845e 16-5-14
16. The lost chord
(Sullivan) HMV 2EA 1181 1938-09-27 London, Kingsway Hall
17. The Maid of the
Mountains (Harris-Valentine-Tate) A bachelor gay HMV Bb 19281-2 1-5-30
18. The Marriage of
Figaro (Mozart) Now your days of philandering are over HMV HO 4644 -2af
25-11-20
19. The Midnight
Review (Glinka) HMV Cc 15967-1A 5-3-29 C Studio, Small Queen’s Hall, London
20. The miner's dream
of home (Goodwin-Dryden) HMV Bb 1959-1 13-10-22 Recordings made at Hayes, Room
1
21. The smuggler’s
song (Mortimer) HMV Bb 16954-1A 6-6-29 C Studio, Small Queen’s Hall, London
22. The trumpeter
(Dix) HMV Cc 15969-1 5-3-29 C Studio, Small Queen’s Hall, London
23. The vagabond (Ralph Vaughan Williams) HMV Bb 2950-1 7-5-23 Recordings made at Hayes, Room 1
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