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Fraser Gange-Adams (born June 17, 1887 in Dundee , † 1962 in Baltimore ) was an American opera and oratorio singer ( baritone ) and singing teacher of Scottish origin.

Gange sang Mephisto in an amateur performance of Gounod's Faust at the age of 16 . At the age of 18 he went to London and studied singing with Amy Sherwin . His professional debut took place in London's Queen's Hall in 1906 . Even before 1914 he undertook concert tours through Australia and England and performed in Merrie England under the direction of Edward German .

Gange served in the British Army during the First World War. In 1917 he married the singer Amy Evans . The couple toured Australia and New Zealand. In 1923 he gave the first concert in the new Caird Hall in Dundee. In 1924 he made his US debut at the Berkshire Festival of Chamber Music . He then moved with his wife to the United States and entered the next few years with the American Symphony Orchestra under the baton of conductors such as Arturo Toscanini and Sergei Kussewiki in Carnegie Hall on. In 1928 he sang Creon in a performance of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex in Boston. Over the course of four years he sang 49 performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony .

Gange was a vocal professor at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore for 26 years . He also taught at the Juilliard School in New York and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He has received recordings on the His Master's Voice and Columbia Records label , including arias by Handel and songs by Richard Strauss .

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SURNAME Go, Fraser
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gange-Adams, Fraser (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American opera and oratorio singer (baritone) as well as singing teacher of Scottish origin
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Dundee
DATE OF DEATH 1962
Place of death Baltimore