 He also liked northern English audiences better than southern ones, and liked singing to audiences of public schoolboys.Plunket Greene was a friend of Edward Elgar's, and appeared in his Malvern Concert Club events.He was the original baritone in the first (October 1900) performance (Birmingham Festival) of Elgar's "The Dream of Gerontius", alongside Marie Brema (angel) and Edward Lloyd (soul), under Hans Richter.