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Stamp of the Month: April 2018

Marian Anderson
The American opera singer Marian Elina-Blanche Anderson was born in Philadelphia on February 27th, 1897. She died on April 8, 1993 in Portland, Oregon. In April 2018, her death will mark the 25th time.
When Marian Anderson was six years old, she started to sing in a church choir. She received a proper musical education when she was 17 and won the first prize in a singing competition with 300 applicants in 1925. Then, the previously unknown singer was allowed to perform with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and wowed the audience. In the early 1930s, she went on a European tour and sang, among others, concerts conducted by Jean Sibelius, Arturo Toscanini and Bruno Walter. On January 7, 1955 Marian Anderson performed as the first ever African-American singer as a soloist at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

USA 25.1.2005

The video shows a historical document of the times: The Conservative Women’s Association “Daughters of the American Revolution” prevented in 1939 a planned appearance of Marian Anderson in Constitution Hall in Washington because of her skin color. In protest against this racial discrimination, Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the then President, ended her membership in the assoxiation and organized on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939 an open-air concert in front of the Lincoln Memorial, which was attended by around 75,000 people.

Stamp of the Month: March 2018

Sergei Rachmaninoff
The Russian composer and pianist Sergei Rachma-
ninoff was born in Oneg on April 1, 1873. He died on March 28, 1943 in Beverly Hills. In March 2018, his death marks the 75th time.
Rachmaninoff studied piano and composition in Moscow. With the start of the Russian Revolution in 1917, he moved to Paris, from where he started numerous concert tours through Europe and

Moldova 22.2.1997

America. As a pianist, he became world-famous. In 1935 he moved to the USA. Rachmaninoff’s compo-
sitions include piano concerts, operas, symphonies, symphonic dances and symphonic poems. His Piano Concertos No. 2 and 3 are world-renowned and regularly played by many orchestras.

The video shows the Ukrainian pianist Anna Fedorova (* 1990) and the Northwest German Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Martin Panteleev (* 1976) with the Piano Concerto no. 2 op. 18 by Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Stamp of the Month: February 2018

Andrés Segovia
The Spanish guitarist Andrés Segovia Torres was born in Linares on February 21, 1893, he died on June 2, 1987 in Madrid. In February 2018, his birthday will mark the 125th time.
Already at the age of fourteen Segovia gave concerts in Spain. His international career started in 1924 with a concert in Paris. For several decades he was on tour internationally and even at the age of 91 years has given a concert at the Berlin Philharmonic. With his guitar playing Segovia had great influence on the development of classical guitar playing in the 20th century. Numerous compositions, which now belong to the classical guitar repertoire, have been written especially for him. He also edited many works that were originally written for other instruments, for the classical guitar. Segovia also taught at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, in Santiago de Compostela and at the University of California at Berkeley. Many great guitarists were his pupils.

Spain 19.2.1993

The video shows Andrés Segovia with the legend “Asturias” from the “Suite española, Op. 47” by Isaac Albéniz.

Stamp of the Month: January 2018

Mariss Jansons
The Latvian conductor Mariss Jansons was born in Riga on January 14, 1943. In January 2018 he will be 75 years old.
Jansons studied violin, piano and conducting at the conservatory in Leningrad and went to Austria in 1969, where he continued his education among others under Herbert von Karajan. In 1973 he became assistant conductor of the Leningrad Philharmonic. From 1979 to 2000 he was director of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1997 he was appointed chief conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Since autumn 2003 he has been chief conductor of the choir and Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio, since September 2004 also chief conductor of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Österreich 1.1.2006

The milestones in cooperation with the orchestra of the Bavarian Radio include the performances of the Requiems of Verdi, Mozart, Brahms and Dvorak; of Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms, Poulenc’s Stabat Mater and Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms. In autumn 2012, Jansons led the choir and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, performing all nine Beethoven symphonies.

2006, 2012 and 2016 Mariss Jansons conducted the Vienna New Year’s Concert, which took place on 1 January 2018 the 78th time. In a close match with the stamp, the video shows an excerpt from the New Year’s Concert of 2006.