McARDEN, Joy [LITERATURE] synopsis of ballets and short

synopsis of ballets and short biographies of the main dancers

Signed photo shown at the piano

Also included: signature of Wilhelm Kempff

Program for a concert of works by Mendelssohn and Mahler performed by the Wiener Tonkunstler-Orchester conducted by the Austrian conductor in Vienna

and brother of the famous conductor Cleofonte Campanini

McARDEN, Joy [LITERATURE] synopsis of ballets and shortDutch soprano (1893 1952), whose real name was Johanna Maria Goverdina (Jo) IJzerman. Signed photograph, shown as Octavian in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, inscribed in London, dated in 1939. Stamped on verso by photographer J. W. Debenham, Willesden. Size is 6 x 8 inches, mounting traces on verso and some silvering at the top, otherwise in very good condition.