Peter Dawson

Peter Smith Dawson (31 January 1882 – 27 September 1961) was an Australian bass-baritone and songwriter. Dawson gained worldwide renown through song recitals and many best-selling recordings of operatic arias, oratorio solos and rousing ballads during a career spanning almost 60 years.
Although Dawson's repertoire embraced a great deal of contemporary popular songs and light music, he possessed a remarkably fluent and technically adroit vocal technique which enabled him to excel in highly demanding classical pieces. His voice combined an attractive dark timbre with an ideal balance of diction and vocal placement. He also possessed a smooth legato, a strong but integrated 'attack' that eschewed intrusive aspirates, and a near-perfect ability to manage running passages and difficult musical ornaments such as roulades.
==Links to Peel==
Two of Peter Dawson's tracks were added to the Peelenium for 1900 and 1929. It seems both of them were added to wrong years of the Peelenium, as Dawson's song, 'The Miner's Dream Of Home' was not released in 1900. In fact Dawson first 78-rpm recordings were recorded in 1904, so his song for the Peelenium 1900 seemed to have been added by mistake. Also his song, 'The Admiral's Broom' was first released in 1918 and not 1929.
==Shows Played==
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*13 May 1999: 'The Miner's Dream Of Home' (Peelenium 1900)
*21 July 1999: 'The Admiral's Broom' (Peelenium 1929)
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
Category:Artists