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[[Card]]
[[Image on Card - Painted cartoon of Charlie Chaplin with a heart]] 
Pssssst....
Welcher
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[[Letter]]

HARAS DE REUX
PAR PONT-L'ÉVÊQUE
(CALVADOS)
TEL. 35 PONT-L'ÉVÊQUE

[[Typed Text]]

15.1.1964

Dearest Joy,

we were so pleased to hear from you and very touched that you are always thinking of us. We hope that you are well and we wish you all the happiness for this year.

We are all well. Peter got married in October a very nice French girl. We are very happy about it and about Peters devellopment all round. He is working and living in New York. His address ist: 112 Willow Street Brooklyn 1, N.Y.

I wonder if you will get this letter, because we could'nt make out the address.

We always think at you and hope, dear Joy, to meet you again in Europe or in the USA. and send you all our love.

All ways love 
Anna

[[note]] Kraliner
Anna is Greek and Dimitri Metropolous was her piano teacher as a girl. She married Bogie who is a Rothschild. Peter, their son, was an ardent fan in Paris.  I got to know the family quite well. [[/note]]

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[[Event Program]]

[[Image- Logo with Y.W.C.A ]]

The GENERAL COMMITTEE
presents
JOY McLEAN SOPRANO in a SONG RECITAL

accompanied by 
LORNA TETLEY

IN AID OF CLUB FUNDS

SUNDAY, 4th MAY, 1952, at 7-30 p.m.

IN THE MUSIC ROOM, Y.W.C.A. CENTRAL CLUB
LEEDS 2

Programme 3d

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Song recital by an American  
By ERNEST BRADBURY
[[Left Margin]] 5/5/52
A song recital given by Mrs. Joy McLean (soprano) in the Y.W.C.A. Central Club, Leeds, last night, was quite remarkable for its wide intellectual range. 

As an interpretive artist, able to distinguish emotionally between songs so superficially similar as Schumann's Die Lotosblume, Brahms's Die Mainacht and Jenson's Frühlingsnacht, Mrs. McLean at once commanded keen attention. Following the Leider with five exquisite chansons, perfectly enunciated. Verdi's Ritorna vincitor from "Aida," and modern English and American songs, some in manuscript, Mrs. McLean quickly made her recital into a model of its kind, and one thoroughly satisfying as an artistic whole.

Some of the most moving moments came in the last group, when Mrs. McLean, who is an American negress, sang songs of her own people and an item from Gershwin's folk opera "Porgy and Bess." Mrs. McLean, a club leader at the Y.W.C.A. is the wife of a law student now in his final year at Leeds University. It seems to me astonishing that so remarkable an artist has been with us four years without our knowing it.  I hope there will be another recital before she leaves. 

She commands a wide register and a perfectly controlled mezza voce.  Her voice is occasionally hard, and, with so difficult a beginning to the recital the tone was at first a trifle unsteady. But there was a superb artistry in Duparc's wonderful Chanson Triste, even allowing for a moment's forgetfulness, while Verdi's aria was fully charged with dramatic fitness.

Mrs. McLean's excellent accompanist was Miss Lorna Tetley

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