Clive Carey
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Carey in 1928
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| Born | 1883 Sible Hedingham, United Kingdom |
| Died | 1968 |
| Resting place | Holy Trinity, Church Road, Claygate, Surrey, KT10 0JP |
| Education | Sherborne School, King's College, Cambridge, Clare College, Royal College of Music |
Francis Clive Savill Carey CBE (30 May 1883 – 30 April 1968), known as Clive Carey, was an English baritone, singing teacher, composer, opera producer and folk song collector.
Clive Carey was born at Sible Hedingham, Essex, in 1883. He went to Sherborne School, and was a chorister in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, before becoming an Organ Scholar at Clare College in 1901. He then entered the Royal College of Music (RCM) under the auspices of the Grove Scholarship in Composition, studying under Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (composition) and James H. Ley (singing). He had further study with Jean de Reszke in Paris and Nice.
He made his London debut in a song recital in 1907, making an immediate impression. The Times commented that he had "a baritone voice of wide compass and attractive quality, which he produces in very easy manner and with an assurance that is by no means common in a young singer. His songs lay well off the beaten track ... the singer showed himself thoroughly at home in them all." On 11 December 1907 he played Papageno in Mozart's The Magic Flute at Cambridge, in a performance he himself produced, in which the English translation by Edward J. Dent was used for the first time. He then sang in a considerable number of other operas.
In 1911 Carey started collecting English folk songs in Sussex with Dorothy Marshall, and later in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.World War I interrupted most of Carey's musical activities; he was a ward orderly in the Medical Corps in France, among other duties, although he did publish Ten English Folk Songs in 1915. Also in 1915, he began setting The Starlight Express, but Sir Edward Elgar was given the commission. After the war, he took part in Rutland Boughton's performances at Glastonbury. For the Old Vic Theatre, where he was based from 1920 to 1924, he produced and sang in The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute (1920), and Don Giovanni (1921). He also toured at home and in Europe in the vocal sextet called The English Singers.
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