VOCABULARY to hear - słyszeć to sing - śpiewać conductor - tu: dyrygent to advise - radzić one of the world's leading concert artists - jedna z czołowych artystek koncertowych świata she showed herself to be an enthusiast - okazała się entuzjastką song - piosenka to perform - tu: (o piosence) śpiewać, wykonywać war - wojna to appear on the concert stage - pojawić się na scenie koncertowej to take the title role - przyjąć rolę tytułową to give operatic performance - wystąpić w roli operowej sick - chory Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Fund - fundusz imienia Kathleen Ferrier to award a scholarship - przyznać stypendium annual - roczny, doroczny, rokroczny memory - pamięć blue plaque - niebieska tabliczka pamiątkowa

Lesson 12
Kathleen Ferrier

One of those who now heard Ferrier sing was the conductor Malcolm Sargent.

He advised her to study in London. She did so and, within a few years, had become one of the world's leading concert artists.

She also showed herself to be an enthusiast for English traditional songs, performing many of them in her concerts.

After the war she continued to appear regularly on the concert stage and took the title role in The Rape of Lucrezia by Benjamin Britten, one of only two operatic performances she ever gave, but, by the early 1950s, she was already a sick woman.

Today the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Fund awards annual music scholarships in her memory. The blue plaque to Kathleen Ferrier is on her house in Frognal, Hampstead.

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