youpiao
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What I collect: Worldwide, mainly classic-era, Topicals: Classical music, Literature/Fiction Writers, Accordions, Novelty stamps.
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Post by youpiao on Jan 31, 2022 0:18:41 GMT
Bronislaw Huberman was a child prodigy on the violin who was denied his childhood and education, so that his father could profit from parading his son around the world, making money. He is credited with saving the lives of a thousand Jews during the holocaust period, and somehow managed to procure from Hitler exit documents for 70 Jewish musicians who had been fired from orchestras across Europe, and with them he founded the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, the forerunner of today's Israel Philharmonic. Israel, Scott Nr 954 (1986)
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youpiao
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APS #218885 IPDA #196
Posts: 131
What I collect: Worldwide, mainly classic-era, Topicals: Classical music, Literature/Fiction Writers, Accordions, Novelty stamps.
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Post by youpiao on Jan 31, 2022 0:34:18 GMT
The legendary Spanish Soprano, Montserrat Caballe has 2 notable connections to Andorra: In 1997, she co-founded a singing competition there which bears her name, and in 2014 was convicted of tax fraud, by Spanish authorities, for falsely claiming to reside in Andorra, to avoid paying income tax. French Andorra, Scott Nr 520 (2000)
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youpiao
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APS #218885 IPDA #196
Posts: 131
What I collect: Worldwide, mainly classic-era, Topicals: Classical music, Literature/Fiction Writers, Accordions, Novelty stamps.
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Post by youpiao on Dec 12, 2023 23:24:10 GMT
For the 200th anniversary of the founding of Sweden's Royal Academy of Music, composer Ingvar Lidholm was commissioned to come up with a stamp design incorporating musical notation. Shown below is what he came up with. This abstract notation, titled "Stamp Music," represents an actual piece of music written for soprano and tam-tam which was recorded and released as a 45 rpm record, titled "Stamp Music I." Here is a YouTube video of a live performance from the 2nd Basel Int'l Vocal Competition 2022, with soprano Kiyomi Nakamura (and sans tam-tam). The piece does have intelligible lyrics which can be heard at 2:39-2:52 and at the very end of the piece.
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Dec 15, 2023 11:56:21 GMT
For the 200th anniversary of the founding of Sweden's Royal Academy of Music, composer Ingvar Lidholm was commissioned to come up with a stamp design incorporating musical notation. Shown below is what he came up with. This abstract notation, titled "Stamp Music," represents an actual piece of music written for soprano and tam-tam which was recorded and released as a 45 rpm record, titled "Stamp Music I." youpiao
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youpiao
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APS #218885 IPDA #196
Posts: 131
What I collect: Worldwide, mainly classic-era, Topicals: Classical music, Literature/Fiction Writers, Accordions, Novelty stamps.
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Post by youpiao on Dec 16, 2023 14:15:00 GMT
Thanks for that clipping, Rod.
For anyone interested, here are a couple of YT videos -- the 1st is conductor Herbert Blomstedt explaining to a concert audience the next piece, Lindholm's "Poesis." And the second video is the performance of that piece. While I am, for the most part, not a fan of avant-garde art (although, in the 70s, a much younger me did purchase albums of, and attempt an appreciation for Edgar Varese and Morton Subotnick), I did find a certain fascination and pleasure in listening to this piece.
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