1. Francis Clive Savill Carey, known as Clive Carey, was an English baritone, singing teacher, composer, opera producer and folk song collector.
20 Facts About Clive Carey
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Clive Carey was born at Sible Hedingham, Essex, in 1883.
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Clive Carey was a chorister in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, and then attended Sherborne School before becoming an Organ Scholar at Clare College in 1901.
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Clive Carey then entered the Royal College of Music under the auspices of the Grove Scholarship in Composition, studying under Sir Charles Villiers Stanford and James H Ley.
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Clive Carey had further study with Jean de Reszke in Paris and Nice.
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Clive Carey made his London debut in a song recital in 1907, making an immediate impression.
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Clive Carey then sang in a considerable number of other operas.
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In 1911 Carey started collecting English folk songs in Sussex with Dorothy Marshall, and later in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
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World War I interrupted most of Clive 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.
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Clive Carey became a teacher of singing at the RCM.
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Clive Carey collected Australian folk songs while he was there.
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Clive Carey contributed an article on English folk songs to an Australian Theosophist magazine.
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Clive Carey sang in some of Dame Nellie Melba's farewell concerts in 1927.
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Clive Carey then returned to the RCM, where he lectured and gave English folk song recitals.
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Clive Carey married Doris Mabel Johnston, daughter of Samuel Johnson of Adelaide, in 1929.
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Clive Carey was a member of the Sadler's Wells Management Committee after the death of Lilian Baylis in 1937.
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In 1939, at the outbreak of World War II, Clive Carey happened to again be in Australia with his wife, and they remained there for the duration of the war; he taught in Melbourne and gave song recitals.
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Clive Carey was active in restoring the original intentions of the composers who interested him, by removing accumulated traditions in the performances of certain of their operas.
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Clive Carey's compositions included a number of songs and incidental music.
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Clive Carey died in London on 30 April 1968, aged 84.