Music, the Mail, and Ephemera

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Szykneij

#400
July 26, 2021, 03:23:09 AM
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on July 26, 2021, 03:08:39 AM
Love the stamps and the *Koussevitzky/Magnavox ad!
*That would be cool to frame and hang up around either ones stereo or music collection.   ;D

It also reminds us of how much more mainstream classical music was in the past. In 1939, when that ad appeared, the general public (at least those interested in buying a phonograph) would recognize who Koussevitzky was. I'm not sure there is a conductor today who would be considered for a full-page magazine or 30-second video ipod ad.
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Pohjolas Daughter

#401
July 26, 2021, 03:30:01 AM
Quote from: Szykneij on July 26, 2021, 03:23:09 AM
It also reminds us of how much more mainstream classical music was in the past. In 1939, when that ad appeared, the general public (at least those interested in buying a phonograph) would recognize who Koussevitzky was. I'm not sure there is a conductor today who would be considered for a full-page magazine or 30-second video ipod ad.
:-X  :(

Do you happen to know where that ad appeared?  Magazine?  Poster in a stereo shop or department store?

PD

Szykneij

#402
July 26, 2021, 03:36:47 AM
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on July 26, 2021, 03:30:01 AM
:-X  :(

Do you happen to know where that ad appeared?  Magazine?  Poster in a stereo shop or department store?

PD

That was a full-page ad that I believe came from "Life" magazine.
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

#403
July 27, 2021, 02:26:46 AM
*This Day in Music History*
July 27, 1867
Enrique Granados, Spanish opera composer, born in Lérida, Spain (d. 1916)
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

#404
July 28, 2021, 02:25:21 AM
*This Day in Music History*

July 28, 1741
Antonio Vivaldi dies at 63

July 28, 1750
Johann Sebastian Bach dies at 65
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

#405
July 29, 2021, 02:34:13 AM
"This Day in Music History*
July 29, 1856
Robert Schumann dies at the age of 46
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

#406
July 30, 2021, 02:15:21 AM
*This Day in Music History*
July 30, 1824
Gioachino Rossini becomes manager of Theatre Italian, Paris
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Pohjolas Daughter

#407
July 30, 2021, 05:51:55 AM
Quote from: Szykneij on July 30, 2021, 02:15:21 AM
*This Day in Music History*
July 30, 1824
Gioachino Rossini becomes manager of Theatre Italian, Paris
Interesting!  I didn't know that he had been a theatre manager.  Any idea how long he did this for?
And when it was during his career?

PD

Szykneij

#408
July 30, 2021, 07:18:32 AM
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on July 30, 2021, 05:51:55 AM
Interesting!  I didn't know that he had been a theatre manager.  Any idea how long he did this for?
And when it was during his career?

PD

From Wikipedia:

Rossini's new, and highly remunerative, contract with the French government was negotiated under Louis XVIII, who died in September 1824, soon after Rossini's arrival in Paris. It had been agreed that the composer would produce one grand opera for the Académie Royale de Musique and either an opera buffa or an opera semiseria for the Théâtre-Italien. He was also to help run the latter theatre and revise one of his earlier works for revival there.
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Pohjolas Daughter

#409
July 30, 2021, 08:13:57 AM
Quote from: Szykneij on July 30, 2021, 07:18:32 AM
From Wikipedia:

Rossini's new, and highly remunerative, contract with the French government was negotiated under Louis XVIII, who died in September 1824, soon after Rossini's arrival in Paris. It had been agreed that the composer would produce one grand opera for the Académie Royale de Musique and either an opera buffa or an opera semiseria for the Théâtre-Italien. He was also to help run the latter theatre and revise one of his earlier works for revival there.
Thank you!  :)

PD

Szykneij

#410
July 31, 2021, 02:16:10 AM
*This Day in Music History*
July 31, 1886
Franz Liszt dies at the age of 74.
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Iota

#411
July 31, 2021, 02:27:43 AM
Quote from: Szykneij on July 29, 2021, 02:34:13 AM
"This Day in Music History*
July 29, 1856
Robert Schumann dies at the age of 46

Lao Tzu — 'The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.'   :(

Szykneij

#412
August 01, 2021, 02:01:38 AM
*This Day in Music History*
August 8, 1779
Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, poet and writer of the lyrics to "Star-Spangled Banner", born in Carroll County, Maryland (d. 1843).
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

#413
August 02, 2021, 02:56:54 AM
*This Day in Music History*
August 2, 1921
Enrico Caruso dies at 48
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Pohjolas Daughter

#414
August 02, 2021, 04:41:25 AM
Quote from: Szykneij on August 02, 2021, 02:56:54 AM
*This Day in Music History*
August 2, 1921
Enrico Caruso dies at 48
What a voice!

And great stamp!  :)

PD

Szykneij

#415
August 03, 2021, 02:31:04 AM Last Edit: August 03, 2021, 02:37:49 AM by Szykneij
*this Day in Music History*
August 3, 1829
Gioachino Rossini's opera "Guillaume Tell" premieres at Salle Le Peletier in Paris
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

#416
August 04, 2021, 02:46:19 AM
*This Day in music History"
August 4, 1782
Wolfang Amadeus Mozart (26) weds Constanze Weber in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, Austria

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Pohjolas Daughter

#417
August 04, 2021, 07:08:55 AM
Trying to figure out what to do here with some old music magazines.  I had kept a handful of some Gramophone ones plus some other odds and ends.  I doubt that they are worth much and probably more of a hassle to list on eBay than are worth.  I do have a number of older Opera News that I'm thinking of seeing whether or not an ephemera dealer might want.  I had bought most of them at an auction some years ago.  Feeling like I want to declutter around here and have been going at it today.  Making a bit of progress.  ::)

PD

Szykneij

#418
August 04, 2021, 07:17:05 AM
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on August 04, 2021, 07:08:55 AM
Trying to figure out what to do here with some old music magazines.  I had kept a handful of some Gramophone ones plus some other odds and ends.  I doubt that they are worth much and probably more of a hassle to list on eBay than are worth.  I do have a number of older Opera News that I'm thinking of seeing whether or not an ephemera dealer might want.  I had bought most of them at an auction some years ago.  Feeling like I want to declutter around here and have been going at it today.  Making a bit of progress.  ::)

PD

You might want to select and remove some of the nicer pages to save or sell and discard the rest. There is a demand for interesting and/or attractive magazine pages that can be framed or displayed in albums, like this ad from National Geographic.
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Pohjolas Daughter

#419
August 04, 2021, 07:56:55 AM Last Edit: August 04, 2021, 08:16:38 AM by Pohjolas Daughter
Quote from: Szykneij on August 04, 2021, 07:17:05 AM
You might want to select and remove some of the nicer pages to save or sell and discard the rest. There is a demand for interesting and/or attractive magazine pages that can be framed or displayed in albums, like this ad from National Geographic.
Thank you for the suggestion; I'll keep that in mind.  The handful of Gramophone ones, etc. are only within about the past 20 years.  Hard to toss these two in particular:

  There's another one (will grab it when I go back upstairs) which features an article by Michael Kennedy about RVW.

PD

EDIT:  Here's the Vaughan Williams one:

Having trouble finding a picture of it, but it's from August 2008 (Vol. 86).

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