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Groves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians,vol.5 L-m, 1900
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1LAWRENCE (Martin)
3House, New York, and in 1936 she sang also at Chicago and Buenos Aires. She then divided her time between France and the U.S.A., where in Jan. 1939 she sang at the White House before President Roosevelt. In the same year she went back to Australia for the first time and gave numerous concerts there.
5In the 1940s Marjorie Lawrence was stricken with infantile paralysis, but although unable to walk she continued to act some of her operatic parts in special arrangements made for her, and she toured extensively, giving highly successful recitals. A. H. (ii), adds.
7BIBL.—LAWRENCE, MARJORIE, 'Interrupted Melody: the Story of my Life' (New York, 1949).
9LAWRENCE, Martin (b. London, 26 Sept. 1909).
10English bass singer. He received his musical education privately. He made his début in 1934, since when he has sung in concerts, concert party, musical comedy and opera. His first appearance in opera was in 1945 when he sang in 'Faust' and 'Rigoletto' with the Carl Rosa Opera Company. In 1946–48 he sang with the New London Opera Company at the Cambridge Theatre, taking such parts as Don Pasquale, Colline in 'La Bohème' and Bartolo and Basilio in 'The Barber of Seville', Leporello, Sparafucile and Pistol. He has sung in many broadcast operas including Gerhard's 'The Duenna', Cimarrosa's 'The Secret Marriage', Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Golden Cockerel', Vaughan Williams's 'Hugh the Drover' and Weber's 'Abu Hassan'. His appearance in Arthur Benjamin's 'Prima Donna' showed him to be an admirable acquisition for English opera, but, as an exceptionally adaptable artist, he is also capable of both singing and acting in Italian in a manner that is surprisingly authentic. In 1953 he had a great success in Budapest. M. K. W.
12LAWRENCE, T. B. (Thomas Bertie) (b. Liverpool, 10 Feb. 1880; d. London, 25 Mar. 1953).
13English choral conductor. He was educated at the Blue Coat Hospital, Liverpool, where he gained considerable musical experience as solo boy for four years in the chapel choir and as pupil-conductor of the school's military band. Incidentally he learnt to play on all the instruments of the band. He won the first musical scholarship offered by the Liverpool Corporation and spent three years at the Liverpool School of Music, studying the violin with Courvoisier; but a business career claimed him, and although he had formed the Fleet Street Choir for madrigal and other a cappella work in 1929, it was not until 1934 that he gave up his business in order to devote himself to his new métier of choral conductor.
15It was largely due to his realization, through the editorial work of E. H. Fellowes and others, of the vast resources of choral music left by the Tudor composers that he founded first his choir, and in the following year (1930) the London Madrigal Group, a sextet of singers with which he has visited the U.S.A. The performances of both organizations were stamped with his clear conception of the meaning of interpretation in the vocal consort. His fine taste refused triviality alike in his choice of music and in his manner of performance. H. C. C., adds.
17See also Fleet Street Choir.
19LAWROWSKA. See LAVROVSKA.
20Lawson, James. See Key-Bugle.
22LAWTON, Dorothy (b. Sheffield, 31 July 1881).
23English music librarian. She went to the U.S.A. at the age of nine and studied the pianoforte with several masters, including Sigmund Stojowski, in New York, also harmony with Eduard Hermann. She taught and lectured in New York until 1920, when she organized the music circulating library, then a new department of the New York Public Library, of which she remained in charge for many years and which she directed with great ability, making a special feature of the catalogue and doing much to assist musicians in their research work. In 1930 she went to Paris to organize a similar department at the American Library, without interrupting her New York appointment. She was a member of the Beethoven Association of America, the MacDowell Club and the National Institute of Social Sciences, and also served as hon. Secretary of the U.S.A. Section of the I.S.C.M.
25Dorothy Lawton retained her British nationality and after the second world war returned to England, assisting Mrs. Winifred Christie-Moor in establishing the Central Music Library in London, for which she began to compile an elaborate catalogue. This had at first to be set aside for a simplified interim catalogue suitable for immediate use, but her services and her long experience of librarianship were of inestimable benefit to the Library, and remained so after her retirement in 1950.
27E. B.
28See also Christie (Winifred). Libraries (London, Central Music Library).
30LAY. A Provençal word, originally probably Celtic, meaning at first a sound or noise, and then a song, especially the tune, as the quotations from Spenser, Milton and Dryden in Johnson's Dictionary prove. Beyond this general sense the term has no application to music.
32LAY CLERK
33LAY VICAR } See CATHEDRAL MUSIC.
34LAYOLLE, François (Franciscus) de 1 (b. ? Lyons, ?; d. ?).
361 Known in Italy as Francesco Dell'Aiolle.
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