Kenneth Ellis (bass)
Muriel Kemp (piano)
KENNETH ELLIS
Songs by Dom Thomas Symons :
A song of soldiers (words by Walter de la Mare)
Lark-song on Mendip (words by Nevile H. Watts )
Never seek to tell thy love (words by William Blake )
'Twas on a Holy Thursday (words by William Blake )
MURIEL KEMP
KENNETH ELLIS
Songs by Dom Thomas Symons :
The first of May (words by A. B. Housman )
Come away, Death (words by Shakespeare)
Farewell this world (words from
Richard Hill 's Commonplace Book, c. 1520)
Kenneth Ellis had originally studied art as a profession, but later took up music and trained in London and Germany. He had been singing in Germany just prior to the last, war, actually returning to England about a month before the outbreak of hostilities. During the war he was a member of several well-known concert parties, and sang in camps, rest camps, and hospitals in France, Belgium, Italy, and Malta. His first London engagement was at the Palladium.