serenade

 Kalinka-Malinka   this fast paced song is a playful plea for a beautiful girl to fall in love with the singer

how do we feel about the accordian?

CATURDAY

stars

Salome Bey (October 10, 1933 -  August 9, 2020)

singer, songwriter, composer, actress

 First Lady of the Blues

 

 

The stars in Empress Elisabeth's hair are considered the most famous piece of jewellery in Austria

 

firsts

Australia has some of the most delightful stamps, so it is always disappointing to get one of these...

Ah well, they will once again be competing, as they have done in every Summer Games since 1896, and that will not disappoint.

They were the first country outside Europe or North America, and the first in the southern hemisphere, to host the Games. 

The first, and so far, only, South American country to host the Games was Brazil.  They had first tried to host in 1936, but lost out to Germany.  They trumpeted their own horn again in 2020 by being only the second nation to surpass its medal count in the Games following the one it hosted.

Indonesia is first among the Southeast Asian countries in overall medals, most of them for badminton, which doesn't get much tv coverage.  This little birdie is a Sangihe Honey Bird.  It is also difficult to see, not least because it is so tiny (12cm).

While searching my South Korea postcards (ed: and, yes I was so excited to find this stamp that I somehow put the country in southern hemisphere) I found this fortuitous stamp (albeit from the winter games)

southern hemisphere for Sunday Stamps

jazz hands

 

Oscar Peterson (1925-2007) jazz pianist & composer

Issued on his 80th birthday in 2005.  It was the first time a living person had a stamp commemorating them for themselves.

musical geniuses (Oscar Peterson and Count Basie)

some jazz for your Sunday Stamps morning

folk songs

 stamps with images, lyrics and music

Les Raftsmen from Quebec  followed by The Alberta Homesteader

A Mohawk lullaby called The Bear Will Dance  and finally, from Newfoundland and Labrador, a dance ditty I'se the B'y that Builds the Boat

Some Japanese folk songs with an autumn theme

Autumn Leaves and Home

 

for Sunday Stamps - music

800

The Eisteddfod is held every August as a celebration of culture and language in Wales.

 Eight days of competitions in music and poetry.

This 844 year old tradition has only been cancelled once  – in 1914 – until this year.

for Sunday Stamps - anniversaries

singer and musician

In 1980 these stamps of Emma Albani, an opera soprano and Healey Willan, an organist and composer. Both were designed by artist Huntley Brown.

Marie-Louise-Emma-Cecile Lajeunesse was born on November 1, 1847. or 1848, or possibly 1852 as she claimed in her memoir. That last birthdate would make her eight years old when she made her debut in 1860 at a world premier in Montreal before the Prince of Wales. While in Italy to study italian opera she was encouraged to change her name to something simpler and chose "Emma Albani" which sounded more European. The stamp shows her as Violetta from La Traviata

James Healey Willan was born in England and emigrated to Canada at age 33 to the Toronto Conservatory of Music. He was an organist, composer, choir conductor, and teacher. He was the organist and choir master of the Church of St Mary Magdalene for four decades, until his death in 1968.  During his life he composed more than 8450 pieces of music, most of them sacral. The stamp shows him at the console of an organ.

for Sunday stamps - singers, musicians

Sunday Stamps - Z

1981 Zambia, musical instruments

On the left is a kankobele - a keyboard, on the right is an inshingili - a double headed drum

for the letter Z - Zambia

Sunday Stamps II - 26

issued 1973,
featuring instruments and musicians for the series of Musical Instruments of Central and West Africa