It was while he was in South Africa, however, that Aldovrand Maynard began to study the production of his voice, and there he studied under Mr. Bassett Nicholls. He was a member of the Johannesburg Philharmonic Musical Society, and the Kimberley Diamond-fields Musical Society. His fame as a tenor gained
The tune is a variant of Marriage May Become a Curse from Robert Morton Nance’s Guize Dance Drolls.
I was born in 1985 in Reading, so I’m not officially Cornish at all! That said, I have no memory of my life prior to Cornwall – we moved to St Austell when I was four-years-old – so I do consider myself Cornish by nurture if not by birth! Neither
This tune was written in 2007 to commemorate the year that my Granny Mona Trethewey (nee Whitford) was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh.
