Composer of the Month (August)
Above left: Alexander Glazunov (10 August 1865, St Petersburg - 21 March 1936, Neuilly-sur-Seine). Type of music: symphony, concerto, ballet, piano, vocal. Postmark: LENINGRAD, 10.8.1990, 125th Birthday Celebration. Card published in Leningrad in 1955.
Above right: Robert Stolz (25 August 1880, Graz - 27 June 1975, Berlin). Type of music: wrote over 50 operettas (including Midnight Waltz, White Horse Inn) and film soundtracks. Postmark: SAN MARINO, Day of Issue, 18.9.1980. Postage stamp: 100th Birthday Celebration of Robert Stolz. Card published by Associazione Italiana di Maximafilia (A.I.M.).
Leonard Bernstein (25 August 1918, Lawrence, Massachusetts - 14 October 1990, New York). Type of music: symphony, orchestral, opera, film. Postmark: TEL AVIV-YAFO, Day of Issue, 7.2.1995. Card published by ART UNLIMITED, Amsterdam. Photo by Vincent Mentzel, 1976.
Selected MCs from my exhibit 'THE MUSIC HAS SURVIVED TRIUMPHANTLY'.
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