Frank Titterton was a well known British lyric tenor

Tenor

The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...

 of the mid twentieth century. He was noted for his musicianship.

Titterton's career was mainly in the concert hall. Like many British singers of his era he spent much time touring the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, appearing in popular oratorio

Oratorio

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s, rather than performing in opera

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s or giving lieder recitals. A Birmingham City Choir website lists some typical dates and casts for performances of Handel

HANDEL

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's Messiah

Messiah (Handel)

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, for example:

• Dec 12 1936: with Lilian Stiles-Allen
  Lilian Stiles-Allen
  Lilian Stiles-Allen was a British soprano of the mid 20th century.She was born Lilian Elizabeth Allen, and later added her mother's maiden name....
  
  , Gladys Ripley
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  -Early life:She was born in Forest Gate, Essex, the daughter of Alfred and Amy Ripley, and was educated at St. Edmund Roman Catholic School, East Ham, and at Clark's Business College.- Career :...
  
  , Frank Titterton, Horace Stevens; and
• Dec 26 1943: with Joan Cross
  Joan Cross
  Joan Cross was an English soprano, closely associated with the operas of Benjamin Britten. She also sang in the Italian and German operatic repertoires. She later became a musical administrator, taking on the direction of the Sadler's Wells Opera Company.-Career:Cross was born in London...
  
  , Muriel Brunskill
  Muriel Brunskill
  Muriel Brunskill was an English contralto of the mid-twentieth century. Her career included concert, operatic and recital performance from the early 1920s until the 1950s...
  
  , Frank Titterton, Norman Lumsden.

Along with fellow-tenors Heddle Nash

Heddle Nash

William Heddle Nash was an English lyric tenor who appeared in opera and oratorio in the middle decades of the twentieth century. He also made numerous recordings that are still available on CD reissues....

, Walter Widdop

Walter Widdop

Walter Widdop was a British operatic tenor who is best remembered for his Wagnerian performances. His repertoire also encompassed works by Verdi, Leoncavallo, Handel and Bach.-Career:...

 and Parry Jones

Gwynn Parry Jones

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, Titterton was chosen as one of the sixteen soloists for the first performance, and subsequent recording, of Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music

Serenade to Music

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in 1938.

One of his pupils was John Fryatt

John Fryatt

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.

In addition Titterton undertook some film roles, including parts in Barnacle Bill (1935), Song at Eventide (1934) and Waltz Time (1933).

According to the baritone

Baritone

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 Roy Henderson (BBC

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 Radio interview 1988), Titterton always travelled with ‘a sort of apothecary’s case’ and would produce medicines for anyone’s ailments.

Recordings

Titterton can be heard on record singing Michael Balfe's duet Excelsior

Excelsior

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(a setting of Longfellow's poem

Excelsior (Longfellow)

Excelsior is a brief poem written and published in 1841 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The famous Sam Loyd chess problem, Excelsior, was named after this poem....

) with Malcolm McEachern

Malcolm McEachern

Walter Malcom Neil McEachern was a noted Australian bass singer who enjoyed a successful career in the United Kingdom, both as a concert soloist and as one half of the comic musical duo Flotsam and Jetsam....

(Pearl GEMM CD9455).