Frank Titterton
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Frank Titterton was a British tenor of the mid twentieth century. He was born on 31 December 1893 in Handsworth.
His career was mainly in the concert hall. Like many British singers of his era he spent much time touring the UK to sing in the popular oratorios. A Birmingham City Choir website lists some typical dates for Messiah:
- Dec 12 1936: Lilian Stiles-Allen, Gladys Ripley, Frank Titterton, Horace Stevens
- Dec 26 1943: Joan Cross, Muriel Brunskill, Frank Titterton, Norman Lumsden
Along with fellow-tenors Heddle Nash, Walter Widdop and Parry Jones, Titterton was chosen as one of the sixteen soloists for the first performance, and subsequent recording, of Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music in 1938.
In addition Titterton undertook some film roles (Barnacle Bill (1935); Song at Eventide (1934); and Waltz Time (1933).
According to Roy Henderson (BBC Radio interview 1988) Titterton always travelled with ‘a sort of apothecary’s case’ and would produce medicines for anyone’s ailments.
Frank Titterton died on 24 November 1956 in London.
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