 A pupil of Sir Edward Bairstow, she was known as "The Lass With The Delicate Air" (taken from the title of one of the most popular songs in her repertoire).She was principal soprano in the bicentennial "St Matthew Passion" with Keith Falkner and Margaret Balfour for the Bach Cantata Club under Charles Kennedy Scott in November 1929.On 5 October 1938 she was one of the original 16 singers - lightest of the four soprano voices - in Vaughan Williams’s "Serenade to Music."