https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/04/19/alexander-hartog-tenor-mantle-presser/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 09 Jun 2012 20:25:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/04/19/alexander-hartog-tenor-mantle-presser/#comment-550 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:23:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=6642#comment-550 Thank you, yet again. My dad also sung tenor – weddings and family occasions (big Irish gatherings). His repertoire centred on ‘I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen’ (and other songs made famous by Josef Locke and Count John McCormack) and more religious offerings like ‘Panis Angelicus’. When he died we found the rejection letter he had got from ‘Opportunity Knocks’ declaring that they had too many Irish tenors applying to be on the programme. I think singing was one of those things that greatly helped my dad to get through the ‘long littleness of life’.

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