Title:
Says Aaron to Moses
Additional Title:
First Line:
First Line of Chorus:
Creator(s):
- Thorn, Geoffrey
- Concanen, Alfred
Additional Names:
Publication Date:
1879
Instrumentation:
N/A
Subject:
N/A
WIMA Collections:
Alfred Concanen Collection
ID:
AlCon SL 00-051
Publisher:
Hopwood & Crew
Publication Place:
London
Historical Notes
G.H. MacDermott (1845-1901) was born in Islington, and named John Farrell. He had left home by 1861 to join the navy and in 1866 married Mary Ann Stradwick, by whom he had a son. From humble beginnings MacDermott became a wealthy man. In 1883 he lived in Lambeth with a young actress Annie Milburn, daughter of actor James Hartley Milburn, and had another four children, all of whom adopted his stage name of MacDermott.
He later became a successful theatrical agent and managed several famous music halls. In an obituary on 9 May 1901, the Daily Telegraph called G. H. MacDermott the last lion comique, artists whose stage appearance resplendent in evening dress contrasted with the cloth cap image of most of their music hall contemporaries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._H._MacDermott