GEORGE LLOYD-CHANDOS (LONDON, 6 SEPTEMBER, 1862 – BEXHILL-ON-SEA, 9 AUGUST, 1950)
He was born William Francis Lloyd on 6 September 1862 at 31 Exeter Street, Marylebone. In October 1882, he was appointed tenor in the choir of St George’s, Campden Hill, Kensington. In October 1890, he became Principal Tenor of St Marylebone Parish Church. Until January 1895, he performed under the name "Francis Lloyd," after which he adopted the name "Lloyd Chandos." In April 1896, he appeared as tenor soloist in Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall alongside Esther Palliser, Clara Butt, and Charles Santley, conducted by Sir Joseph Barnby. On 16 November 1898, in Sunderland, he sang "Onaway! Awake, Beloved!" in the first public performance of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast. His last known concert took place at the Oakfield Congregational Church, Shepherd’s Bush, in aid of the Lord Mayor’s Fund for Distressed Mining Areas, with Carrie Tubb and Thalben Ball. He died in Bexhill-on-Sea on 9 August 1950, aged eighty-seven.
TRACKLIST
Aida (Verdi)
Celeste Aida X57518 Odeon, London
An evening
song (Blumenthal) R 178 Columbia
Bohemian
Girl (Balfe) When other Lips X57570 Odeon, London
Cavalleria
Rusticana (Mascagni) Drinking Song 44470 Odeon, London
Elegy
(Massenet) T 1506 Columbia
Pagliacci
(Leoncavallo) On with the Motley X57541 Odeon, London
Reine de
Saba (Gounod) Lend me your Aid X57571 Odeon, London
Tis the day (Leoncavallo)
44666 Odeon, London
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