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THE revelation of the Festival Hall's Carmen Jones has been that the two singers playing Carmen's love rivals Joe and Husky are, in fact, Jamaican brothers from New Cross. Offstage, Andrew Clarke, 32 and a tenor, and his 29-year-old brother Rodney, a baritone, are handsome, personable young men with a remarkable list of achievements between them.
"We were both choristers at St George's Cathedral, Southwark," says Rodney, "so musical training was instilled in us at an early age." Having earned a place at the Royal Academy "the head of vocal training said there must be something wrong with the world if I didn't have a singing career" Rodney completed four years' undergraduate training. Just as he was about to embark on a postgraduate opera course, he was joined at the Academy by his older brother.See the full content of this document
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The New Cross Brothers' Triumph
Having won a scholarship himself to Alleyn's, Andrew Clarke became an experienced singer, too as well as London Schools ...
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