LOWTHER, BRABAZON

Homebase: England / Seattle
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Misc Notes: John Brabazon Lowther initially showed up in town back in 1915, when according to The Seattle Times "the noted Celtic baritone" singer performed in a vaudeville revue at the Orpheum Theatre. During WWI in 1917 he sang for a Red Cross fund-raiser event at the Sunset Club. His renditions of Tosca's "Se la Giurata Fede," Hood's "Song of The Shirt" -- along with two original compositions: "My Soul Is An Aeolian Harp" and "A Man's Best Friend" -- were so enthusiastically "received by the audience" he was "compelled to repeat a number of his selections before he was allowed to continue the program" ("Brabazon Lowther Scores Decided Hit" Seattle Times October 1, 1917. Then, on October 16th Lowther gave his first concert in the Recital Hall at Ms. Nellie Cornish's arts school on Seattle's Capitol Hill and was soon teaching there. Many other concerts followed well into 1919, but then in December news broke that Lowther -- the son of Colonel and Mrs. Lowther of Shrigley Park, Macclesfield, Chesire, England -- had married Dr. Lyra B. Kohlander of Seattle on October 25th in London.

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