 In the second series of Promenade Concerts, 1896, he made an appearance in a concert of nationalist flavour with the soprano Fanny Moody and organist Walter Hedgecock, and a choir of 400 boys.In 1897, at the sixth concert of the Royal Philharmonic Society (dedicated to 'Her Majesty's Record Reign'), he sang Frederick Cowen's Scena "The Dream of Endymion" under the composer's baton.He was with David Bispham at the thirteenth biennial Festival at Cincinnati (under Theodore Thomas), in 1898.