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Playing-card collection is a winner for university
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NEW YORK -- The collection spans 50 countries and four centuries
and touches on subjects ranging from beer marketing to 19th-century
Portuguese politics.
Columbia University has a collection of playing cards that is
among the world's largest, a trove of 6,356 decks that the Ivy
League institution painstakingly catalogued this spring after they
were donated to the school by an eccentric collector.
Ranging from simple woodblock prints from 1550s Austria to a 1963
American pack with admiring caricatures of the Kennedy family, the
collection isn't just a novelty, but a rich, if offbeat, resource ...
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Hermann Scherchen, 1891-1966: Phonographie. Deutsche Rundfunkproduktionen, Industrietontrager, Eigenaufnahmen.
Magazine article from: Notes
; These volumes survey the legacy of three conductors born in Austria or Germany in the 1890s who actively promoted new music during their careers. Their legacy of commerical recordings, however, does little to reflect the range and depth of their interests, especially in the field of new music;
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The writings of Iannis Xenakis (starting with Formalized Music).
Magazine article from: Perspectives of New Music
; ...Encouraged early on by his mentor, Hermann Scherchen, Xenakis seems to have experienced...twelve fundamental articles in Scherchen's bilingual (German-English...musique, to be published by Scherchen in Gravesano, Switzerland...
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Profile: Tahra Records, reclaiming musical history
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
; ...wanted to make records. He met Myriam Scherchen, daughter of a legendary German conductor, Hermann Scherchen. They set off for Leipzig to hunt...sometimes, of course. HOLLICK: Now Hermann Scherchen had many famous pupils and proteges...
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CLASSICAL: THE COMPACT COLLECTION ROB COWAN ON THE WEEK'S BEST CD RELEASES
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...State Opera Orchestra under Hermann Scherchen, my own reaction was similar...out of his depth. Otherwise, Scherchen's B minor Mass takes its cue...Vienna State Opera Orchestra/Hermann Scherchen Westminster 471 253-2 (two...
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Das Verhor in der Oper: Die Debatte um die Auffuhrung "Das Verhor des Lukullus" von Bertolt Brecht und Paul Dessau.
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...Wissenschaft (Berlin: Dietz, 1951), Hermann Scherchen's inclusion might at first seem oddly out of place. But Scherchen, the opera's conductor, proved...performances and those in Frankfurt. Scherchen also had the original March 1951...
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CLASSICAL: THE COMPACT COLLECTION ON THE WEEK'S BEST CD RELEASES
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...that dare-devil adventurer Hermann Scherchen push the Vienna State Opera Orchestra...The second is broader than Scherchen's by almost 10 minutes, hence...Vienna State Opera Orchestra/Scherchen (Westminster 471 263-2) Mahler...
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Classical: The Compact Collection ROB COWAN ON GIFT IDEAS FOR VOICE LOVERS
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...the German-born conductor Hermann Scherchen just about pips the period...closing "Amen" chorus. Indeed, Scherchen's Messiah plays for well over...Vienna State Opera Orchestra/ Hermann Scherchen, Westminster 471 232-2...
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Symphony No. 5
Magazine article from: Fanfare
; MAHLER Symphony No. 5 * Hermann Scherchen, cond; Vienna St Op O * URANIA...more than any other conductor, Scherchen revels in (even heightens) the...dead ends. At the same time, Scherchen has a rare insight into its loopy...
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Classical CDs teach music history
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ...and studio performances led by Hermann Abendroth, Karel Ancerl, Wilhelm...Furtwaengler, Hans Knappertsbusch and Hermann Scherchen. Furtwaengler is the most famous...totally unconvincing for me is Scherchen's dry, lugubrious version of...
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DEATHS
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...the University of Padua, he studied wih the Italian composer Bruno Maderna and the West German conductor Hermann Scherchen. Scherchen conducted Mr. Nono's first major success, "Variaazioni Canoniche," in 1950. ELIZETH CARDOSO Brazilian...
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