Henry Wood first conducted the "Prelude and Angel's farewell" from "The Dream of Gerontius", with Kirkby Lunn, in February 1901. In March 1904, she was a principal soloist in the Elgar Festival concerts given at Covent Garden, appearing on the first night with John Coates and Ffrangcon-Davies in "Gerontius", and on the second with them and with Agnes Nicholls, Kennerley Rumford (the husband of Clara Butt) and Andrew Black in "The Apostles". In this way she effectively replaced Marie Brema, the original choice for the "Gerontius" angel. Two years later she performed it with the same colleagues (but for Henry Wood) in Leeds. She sang it under Hans Richter at Birmingham in 1909 with John Coates and Frederic Austin; "The Athenaeum" remarked, 'each, in turn, brought to it an accession of glory.' Wood greatly admired her, and employed her frequently, choosing her for a Sheffield Festival presentation of a suite from Rimsky-Korsakov's opera "Christmas Eve", with Francis Hurford, in 1908.