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-'''Isobel Baillie''' (9 March, 1895, [[Hawick]], [[Scottish Borders]] -
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-September, 1983 – [[Manchester]], [[England]]) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[soprano]], popular in [[opera]], [[oratorio]] and [[lieder]].
-Her favourite work was [[George Frederick Handel]]'s [[Messiah (Handel)|Messiah]]; she sang in it over a thousand times, from the age of 15.
-In 1921 she was invited to appear with the [[Hallé Orchestra]], and she made her first, highly successful, London appearance in 1923.
-Widely praised for the purity and clarity of her tone, she was in demand for choral works; apart from the Messiah, she was noted in [[Joseph Haydn]]'s [[The Creation]], [[Felix Mendelssohn]]'s [[Elijah]], and [[Johannes Brahms]]'s [[German Requiem]]. In 1933 she became the first British performer to sing in the [[Hollywood Bowl]] in [[California]] when [[Arturo Toscanini]] chose her to sing Brahms's Requiem.  Her performances of [[Gluck]]'s ''[[Orfeo ed Euridice|Orpheus]]'' (always in English, so not ''Orfeo ed Euridice'') and [[Charles Gounod]]'s ''[[Faust (opera)|Faust]]'' were very popular.
-However, her forte was British music, including [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]' ''[[Serenade to Music]]'' (of which she was one of the original singers) and [[Edward Elgar]]'s ''[[The Kingdom (Elgar)|The Kingdom]]''.
-She taught at the [[Royal College of Music]] (1955-1957, 1961-1964), [[Cornell University]] (1960-1) and the [[Manchester School of Music]] (from 1970).  She gave a few lessons to [[Kathleen Ferrier]], and often sang with her.
-In 1951 she was made a Commander of the [[Order of the British Empire]]; in 1978 she was made a Dame Commander of that order.
-She said that the best advice she had ever been given was "never sing louder than lovely", and she made that the title of her autobiography.
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-[[Category:Women Singers]]

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