Harry Norris (conductor)
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Henry William Claudius Norris was a New Zealand-born conductor best remembered as musical director of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1920 to 1929.
Harry Norris
Left to right: Gordon, Norris, Lawson, Sheffield, Lytton, Eileen Sharp and Fancourt – publicity shot, c. 1924
Rupert D'Oyly Carte
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Rupert D'Oyly Carte was an English hotelier, theatre owner and impresario, best known as proprietor of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and Savoy Hotel from 1913 to 1948.
Harry Norris (conductor)
…Henry W Norris". A fellow student was the future D'Oyly Carte star Darrell Fancourt. In 1913 the conductor Landon Ronald, responding to a request from Rupert D'Oyly Carte, recommended Norris as chorus coach and principal violinist for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. 1n 1916, he left to serve in World War I as a musketry…
Souvenir programme cover: 1919–20 season