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FAP December 2010 Volume 56 / 4 CONTENTS American Volume 56 / Number 4 Philatelic Society Affiliate December 2010 FEATURES Page 160 American Topical Note-Worthy Music Stamps, Part 19: Ethel Bloesch . ......... 59 Association Study Unit Index to Volume 56 . ........................................ 72 Published by the Fine and Corrections . .............................................. 72 Performing Arts Philatelists, an international society devoted J o u r n a l o f F i n e a n d P e rf o r m i n g A r t s P h il a t e l y to a wider understanding and DEPARTMENTS enjoyments of all aspects of the Arts through philately. FROM THE EDITOR . ............................. 58 Office of Publication: Deborah L. Washington, 6922 S. Jeffery NEW ISSUES AND ITEMS OF INTEREST Blvd. #7N, Chicago, IL 60649 (Send New Item Information to the President) . 73 Email- [email protected] Fine Arts Philatelists is registered with the Internal FROM THE EDITOR Revenue Service as a nonprofit organization. This Ethel Bloesch has outdone herself this year. Part 19 of her makes your donations to FAP tax deductible. Anything you great series Note-Worth Music Stamps covering stamps with give FAP above your annual musical notations issued in 2009, is fantastic. Her article has dues including the excess become a sign of the holidays and a great ending to our 55 year given by sustaining and of publication. contributing members, as well as other cash gifts may be th declared as a charitable That’s right we will begin our 56 year of publication in 2011. deduction. Isn’t it time you wrote an article - short or long - for your FAP Journal? FAP also accepts supplies, postage or milage which any member might spend on the behalf of the FAP. Send a list President & New Issues Editor - BERNARD SECKLER • of such items and costs to the Executive 1st Vice President - RACHEL SMITH, 8023 Mainsail Treasurer. He will then return Drive, Rohnert Park, CA 94928 • 2nd Vice President -Vacant • a form showing the amount of the deduction. Further, Secretary & Editor - DEBORAH L. WASHINGTON, 6922 S. members may donate stamps Jeffery Blvd. #7N, Chicago, IL 60649 • Treasurer - BERNARD or collections. Such items (See Note-Worthy Music SECKLER • Directors - ETHEL BLOESCH, BETTY BRODIE, should be sent to the Stamps, Part 19, Page 59) PAULETTE KUZMANOVICH, HERB MYERS • Handbook Sales Treasurer who, in turn, will send the member a donation Manager - Vacant • card to be used for tax purposes. For Commercial Advertising Rates please contact the Editor. For Membership Information materials please contact the Secretary . 58 FAP December 2010 Volume 56 / 4 FAP December 2010 Volume 56 / 4 NOTE-WORTHY MUSIC STAMPS, PART 19 Ethel Bloesch counterpoint and fugue at the Music Academy, a by Josef Kajetán Tyl (1808-1856). The song [Note: Part 19 describes stamps with musical notation that were issued in 2009.] position he held until his retirement in 1977. became so popular that it was incorporated into Bjelinski's music is described as being direct and the national anthem of Czechoslovakia after the optimistic, characterized by lively rhythms and country was created in 1918 (the second part of strong melodies - a style lending itself to both the anthem was a Slovak song). Upon the ANTIGUA & BARBUDA. No. 3036. A BELGIUM. No.2368a. A booklet pane of serious music and music for children. He dissolution of Czechoslovakia on January 1, sheet of 6 stamps issued April 14, 2000 to five stamps issued May 11, 2009, commemo- composed operas and vocal music, ballets, 1993, "Where is my home?" became the anthem commemorate Elvis Presley (1935-1977). Each rating the anniversaries of five composers. The symphonies, concertos, and chamber music. The of the new Czech Republic. The stamp shows stamp features a portrait of Presley, with five composers are Henry Purcell (1659-1695), stamp pictures Bjelinski at work writing music, the first three bars of the song (melody and decorative George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Joseph with an unidentified music manuscript in the words). Also featured on the stamp is a historic notes Haydn (1732-1809), Felix Mendelssohn background. version of the Czech national emblem, identified hovering (1809-1847), and Clara Schumann (1819- The 3.50k stamp honors the musicologist as the lesser emblem of the Protectorate of around 1896). Together, their lives span a continuous Josip Andreis (1909-1982) Bohemia and Moravia, picturing a silver, him. In timeline from 1659 to 1896, representing notable (Fig. 5). He studied two-tailed, open-mouthed, crown-wearing lion the composers from the Baroque, Classical, and Romance languages at the rampant with tongue and claws drawn out, on a backgroun Romantic eras. Each stamp features a large universities in Zagreb and red background (Fig. 6). d of the portrait of one of the composers. The music at Rome, graduating in 1931. sheet are the top of the stamps and the top margin of the Andreis taught school for DOMINICA. No. 2684. A sheet with six more booklet pane is an excerpt from Handel's ten years and then entered stamps issued June 10, 2009, for the 200th decorative Messiah. It shows the notes that the basses sing the Academy of Music in death anniversary of composer Joseph Haydn notes, this in the closing measures of the chorus "And the Zagreb for a formal study of (1732-1809). The six stamps feature these time on Figure 1 glory of the Lord," from Part I of Messiah. The music. In 1945 he became portraits or scenes: a portrait of Haydn by the six-line (!) cover of the booklet shows a longer excerpt from professor of music history English portrait painter Thomas Hardy; Haydn's staves. the same chorus (Fig. 3). and head of the musicology birthplace in Rohrau, Austria; a portrait of Mozart (Fig. 1). department at the Music by Barbara Krafft; St. Stephen's Cathedral, Figure 5 Academy, positions he held Vienna, where Haydn sang as a choirboy; ARGENTINA. No. 2516. One in a set of until his retirement in 1972. Nikolaus Esterházy, Hungarian prince and Haydn four stamps issued February 14, 2009, He was author of the first history of music sponsor; and Esterházy Palace where Haydn celebrating these written in the Croatian language, co-founder of served as Kapellmeister. The left portion of the Argentine festivals: the the only musicological journal in Croatia, and sheet pictures a drawing of Haydn's birthplace Chaya, the Cherry, the author of other historical studies and and a stringed instrument identified as a 17th Grape Harvest, and the multi-volume works on music. The stamp century viola. An unidentified page of music has Sea Festivals. The first Figure 3 features a portrait of Andreis and excerpts from the words "Violino Primo" at the top of the page, of these, Fiesta de la two unidentified scores, one of which seems to and "Almande I" under the first line. It does not Chaya, takes place in be in Renaissance notation. appear to be any music by Haydn, however, as February in the Province CROATIA. Nos. the of La Rioja. Its origin 718-719. Two stamps CZECH REPUBLIC. A musical goes back to the water issued January 21, 2009 stamp issued October 14, notation and dance feasts of the for the 100th birth 2009 to commemorate the is like First Nations ("chaya" is anniversaries of two 175th anniversary of the that of a word of Quechua Croatian musicians. The Czech national anthem. The the origin, meaning 1.80k stamp (Fig. 4) song, "Kde domov muj" 17th "throwing water"). The commemorates the Figure 2 (Where is my home?) came century stamp has a whimsical composer Bruno Bjelinski originally from an operetta, or stylized design in which two sets of decorative (1909-1992). He first "Fidlova˘cka" (Shoemaker's earlier eighth notes are transformed into a dancing studied law at Zagreb Fair), first performed in 1834. (Fig. couple, flinging water and flour at each other University and then music The music was composed by 7). (Fig. 2). To the right is a "bombo" drum and a at the Zagreb Academy of Figure 6 Frantisek Jan Skroup Figure 7 sprig of basil. The background shows swirls of Music. In 1945 he was (1801-1862), with words others dancing and celebrating. appointed professor of Figure 4 59 60 FAP December 2010 Volume 56 / 4 FAP December 2010 Volume 56 / 4 FAROE ISLANDS. No. 510. A sheet of notes and lines swirl behind the six portraits of performers and an unidentified musical excerpt. with his family. Two decorative notes are shown eight stamps (Fig. 8) issued February 23, 2009, Elvis. The right side of the sheet contains the The music appears to be taken from a piano in the upper left hand corner of the sheets (Fig. depicting scenes from "The Lost Musicians," a singer's silhouette and a vertical cluster of score in 4/4 time and in the key of D or A major 13). novel by the Faroese writer, William Heinesen random notes. (Fig. 11). (1900-1991). Known primarily as a novelist, Heinesen was also a poet, a composer and a GREAT BRITAIN. No. 2693. One stamp in a set of ten stamps issued October 8, 2009 in horizontal strips of five. The stamps commemorate anniversaries related to ten notable Britons from the worlds of sport, politics, science, and the arts. One of the stamps marks the 350th birth anniversary of the Figure 11 English composer and organist Henry Purcell Figure 13 (1659-1695) (Fig. 10). GUINEA. One of two sheets issued Often considered October 1, 2009 featuring paintings by Henri GUINEA BISSAU. Four stamps and a Figure 10 Figure 8 England's greatest Matisse (1869-1954).

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