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Richard Crooks

Richard Crooks began singing being a boy soprano in his regional church. The famous contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink noticed the youthful Crooks at a functionality of Mendelssohn’s Elijah and foresaw his guarantee; soon regional choirmaster Sydney H. Bourne started formal voice schooling with him. With Globe Battle I’s outbreak in 1917, …

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