Roy Henderson

Roy Galbraith Henderson CBE was a British baritone singer, conductor and teacher. Born in Edinburgh and raised in Nottingham, Henderson began singing in public during the First World War, entertaining his army colleagues. After the war he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he won numerous prizes. He received wider notice in 1925 for deputising at short notice in the difficult and important baritone part in Frederick Delius's A Mass of Life at a London concert. Henderson maintained a successful concert career for the next 27 years, taking part in the premieres of many works by British composers. Henderson appeared in opera in two seasons at Covent Garden in 1928 and 1929, and was a founding member of the company of the Glyndebourne Festival, singing there in every season from 1935 to 1939. He was also well known as a recitalist, performing classic and new songs. He made many recordings, mainly for the Decca company, although he is particularly remembered for recordings from Glyndebourne and a 1938 Columbia recording of Ralph Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music in which Henderson and fifteen other leading British singers took part. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Hen...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)