One hundred thousand Britishers gathered at the Crystal Palace, near London, in 1859 to honor the memory of Composer George Frederick Handel. An able tenor was to climax the music festival. The audience waited; he did not appear. Suddenly, a voice, clearer and purer than any they had ever heard, swelled through Crystal Palace. They saw a choir boy of 14, Edward Lloyd.
When Edward Lloyd left the church choir, where he had sung with Arthur Sullivan (later famed as the composer of the light opera team of Gilbert & Sullivan), to...
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