DISCUSSION: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Classical Music and Politics, including contributions from Béla Hartmann and James Ross.
VIDEO PODCAST: Find out about composers from unusual places, including Gerard Schurmann, Giya Kancheli, Nazib Zhiganov and Nodar Gabunia, about singing in cars, and meet Jim Hutton from the RLPO and some of our regular contributors.
English contralto Clara Butt, born in Sussex on 1 February 1873, was known especially for foreign tours of ballad programmes with her husband as accompanist. She was the first to sing Edward Elgar's Sea Pictures (1899 Norwich Festival). She died in Oxford on 23 January 1936.