Pears, Peter - Signed Photograph Bayreuth Programs shown in the musical play

shown in the musical play Lilac Time

American pianist (1880-1948)

The album page also has the signature of the English tenor Gervase Elwes (1866-1921) with his half-tone photograph on verso

with 3 bars from the slow section of "Stars and Stripes Forever"

ALSO INCLUDED is an unsigned black-and-white photo postcard of the cellist

Pears, Peter - Signed Photograph Bayreuth Programs shown in the musical playEnglish tenor (1910 1986), closely associated with composer Benjamin Britten for nearly 40 years. Pears created the role of the fisherman Peter Grimes in the opera of the same name by Britten in 1945. Signed publicity photograph, shown as himself, dated in 1959. Size is 3. 5 x 5. 75 inches, in excellent condition.