To celebrate America’s musical gift to the world, the U.S. Postal Service issued the Jazz Appreciation Forever Stamp. Inspired by vintage jazz record-album covers, Pasadena, Calif., artist Paul Rogers captured the eclectic nature of jazz music and the spontaneity and improvisation of jazz artists in creating art for the Jazz Appreciation Forever Stamp. “With this [...]
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Latin Music Legends
March 27th, 2011 
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2,238 viewsFive legendary musicians and performers of the Latin sound whose contributions have had a lasting impact on American music — Selena, Carlos Gardel, Carmen Miranda, Tito Puente, and Celia Cruz — are honored on U.S. commemorative Forever stamps. Among the distinctive musical genres and styles represented by the music legends featured on the Forever stamps [...]
Finnish National Opera
February 8th, 2011 srmodh 1,011 viewsThe Finnish National Opera (FNO) will celebrate its one hundredth birthday in 2011. In honor of the jubilee the miniature sheet of four stamps is issued. The visual themes of a miniature sheet focus on scenes from six popular operas from different points in time. The operas selected in the miniature sheet include “The Last [...]
Musical instruments – Spain
February 7th, 2011 srmodh 3,960 viewsSpanish post issued a set of stamps devoted to musical instruments featuring four string instruments, three of them plucked: guitar, lute and mandolin, and the other one, the violin, bowed. The guitar is a plucked string instrument consisting of a wooden box, a neck on which is attached the fretboard, an acoustic sound hole in [...]
Famous musicians of India
December 8th, 2010 srmodh 3,868 viewsIndia post issued a set of three stamps featuring famous musicians of India.
75th Anniversary of the birth of Luciano Pavarotti
October 20th, 2010 srmodh 725 viewsThe Republic of San Marino issued a postage stamp to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Luciano Pavarotti birth. Luciano Pavarotti, born in Modena on the 12th October, 1935, revealed his vocal talent at a very early age, passing hours in front of the record player and ransacking his father’s record collection, an amateur tenor.
