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John

Orlando Parry (3 January 1810 –

20 February 1879) was an English actor, pianist, artist, comedian, songwriter

and singer. Parry, the only son of Welsh musician John Parry (known

as Bardd Alaw), was born in London and, at an early age, was taught

by his father to sing and to play the harp and the piano. He also studied the

harp under Robert Bochsa. As Master

Parry, in May 1825, he appeared as a performer on the harp. As a baritone vocalist he made his début on 7 May 1830 at

the Hanover Square Rooms, in

London, on the occasion of Franz Cramer's concert,

when he sang Handel's Arm, arm,

ye brave! with much success. Parry was also an illustrator and artist.

After receiving lessons from Sir George Smart in

sacred and classical music, he was in demand as a singer at the Antient and

Philharmonic concerts, and also at musical festivals in town and country. For

him Sigismund Neukomm composed Napoleon's Midnight Review, and

several other songs, but his best efforts were in simple ballads. In 1833 he

visited Italy, and received instruction from Luigi Lablache at Naples, where he resided some time. At Posilippo he gave a concert

in a theatre belonging to impresario Domenico Barbaja, the

second part of which comprised a burlesque on Othello, Lablache taking the part of Brabantio; Calvarola,

the Liston of Naples, playing the Moor; and Parry as Desdemona, dressed à

la Madame Vestris, and

singing Cherry Ripe. He also appeared before the king and queen of

the Two Sicilies, and gave imitations of Lablache, Rubini, and Malibran in a

mock Italian trio. He returned to England in 1834, after perfecting his command

of the Italian language. On 28 May 1835 he performed in a state room at St James's Palace for King William IV, Queen Adelaide and

other members of the royal family. He accompanied himself on the harp in Lord Burghersh's air "Bendermeer's Stream" and sang a duet

with Adelaide Kemble.[2] He married, on 30 June 1835, Anne Combe, the

daughter of Henry Combe, a surgeon. They had a daughter, Maria. In July 1836 he

gave his first benefit concert at the Hanover Square Rooms, when Malibran sang

for him, and he joined her in Mazzinghi's duet When a little farm we

keep. Persuaded to try the stage, he came out at the St. James's Theatre, just then built by his father's old friend, John Braham, on

29 September 1836, in a burletta called The Sham Prince, written

and composed by his father. He was well received, and on 6 December in the same

year he appeared in John Poole's Delicate Attentions, and in a

burletta, The Village Coquettes, written by Charles Dickens, with music by John Hullah. Subsequently he was

for a brief season at the Olympic Theatre. By 1839, Parry was

becoming known as a comic singer, and in 1840 he composed a comic opera called Wanted, a Governess. In 1842 he forsook the stage for the

concert-room, and was singing, with Anna Thillon and Josef Staudigl, in pieces written expressly for him by Albert Smith. Parry

afterwards accompanied Camillo Sivori, Franz Liszt, Sigismund Thalberg, and

others in a concert tour through the United Kingdom, and his powers as a

pianist and his originality as a buffo vocalist were widely recognised. In 1849

Albert Smith wrote an entertainment entitled Notes Vocal and

Instrumental, which Parry produced on 25 June 1850 at the Store Street

Music Hall, Bedford Square, London, and illustrated with large

water-colour paintings executed by himself. In it he indulged in monologue,

sang in different voices, played the piano, and made rapid changes of his

dress. The entertainment proved more acceptable to the audience than any

single-handed performance since the time of Charles Mathews the elder. He was

afterwards seen at Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate Street, at Willis's Rooms, King

Street, St. James's, and in the provinces. On 17 August 1852 he brought out a

new solo entertainment at Store Street, called The Portfolio for

Children of all Ages,[4] which he continued with much success until

August 1853. The strain of this engagement, however, proved excessive, and for

a time he suffered from mental derangement. When somewhat recovered, he became

organist at St. Jude's Church, Southsea, and gave lessons in singing. On

4 June 1860, he joined Thomas German Reed and his wife at

the Gallery of Illustration, Regent Street, London. Here he performed for nearly nine

years, presenting a series of droll impersonations and musical monologues that

inspired other comedians, including George Grossmith. He built comic sketches with musical

illustrations around his own comic songs. He wrote these entertainments,

composed his own music, and played his own accompaniments.

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