Dgn 54: Sc. 3153 Stars & Stripes Forever — Red, White and Blue 5"x7" Dragon Card. The background is the euphonium (baritone horn) part for the march in red; the foreground is the U.S. flag in blue. STAMPSHOW 97 first day hand cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$3.00

Dgn 54f: Sc. 3153 Stars & Stripes Forever — Red, White and Blue 5"x7" Dragon Card. The background is the euphonium (baritone horn) part for the march in red; the foreground is the U.S. flag in blue. STAMPSHOW 97 first day hand cancel plus Sc. 1094 US Flag. — larger illustration (new window)...$3.25

Dgn 54m: Sc. 3153 Stars & Stripes Forever — Red, White and Blue 5"x7" Dragon Card. The background is the euphonium (baritone horn) part for the march in red; the foreground is the U.S. flag in blue. STAMPSHOW 97 first day hand cancel with Sc. 880 John Philip Sousa and Sc. 1252 American Music. — larger illustration (new window)...$3.50

What's a euphonium? It's also called a baritone horn (there's a difference, but the two names are used almost interchangeably in the U.S.) or a tenor tuba (again, a slight difference). It plays in the same range as the trombone, an octave above the tuba, and, like the tuba and cornet, is a member of the saxhorn family. It is often a lead voice in band compositions and arrangements.

Why a euphonium? It was the first part I played in "Stars & Stripes Forever," and, for all but the first strain, it is playing the melody.

Celebrate The Century: Jazz

Dgn 69: Sc. 3184k Century: Jazz — single from the 1920s Celebrate the Century sheet on a black-on-cream 5"x7" Dragon Card, showing the only known photo of jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, 1903-31. He was the first great white jazz trumpeter, whose career spanned the 1920s — and not much longer — until his death at the age of 28. First Day of Issue hand cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$3.00

Ballet

Dgn 74: Sc. 3237 Ballet — black-on-pink 5"x7" Dragon Card, showing male and female dancers flanking the center of the card, where the stamp and First Day of Issue postmark are. — larger illustration (new window)...$2.50

Dgn 74a: Sc. 3237 Ballet — black-on-pink 5"x7" Dragon Card, showing male and female dancers flanking the center of the card, where the stamp, Sc. 1749 Ballet from 1978's American Dance issue and the First Day of Issue postmark are. — larger illustration (new window)...$3.00

Dgn 74b: Sc. 3237 Ballet — black-on-pink 5"x7" Dragon Card, showing male and female dancers flanking the center of the card, where the stamp, Sc. 1845 Stravinsky and the First Day of Issue postmark are. Unfortunately, the postmark doesn't touch ("tie") the Stravinsky stamp. — larger illustration (new window)...$1.00

Gershwin Centennial

Dgn 75: Sc. N/A Gershwin Centennial — A black-on-green 5"x7" Dragon Card reproducing a photo of him composing at the piano. Two vertical pairs of Sc. 1484, the 1973 Gershwin stamp, are tied by the red registry hand cancel in Brooklyn on September 26, 1998, the centennial of his birth. This is not a first-day. — larger illustration (new window)...$5.00

Celebrate The Century: Big Bands

Dgn 77: Sc. 3186j Century: Big Bands — single from the Celebrate the Century 1940s sheet on a black-on-cream 5"x7" Dragon Card, showing tuxedoed jazz musicians led by a trombonist. First Day of Issue hand cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$3.00

Celebrate The Century: The Beatles

Dgn 93: Sc. 3188o Century: Beatles — black-on-bright yellow (as in "submarine") 5"x7" Dragon Card, photo of Beatles arriving at NYC airport in 1964, small circular date stamp cancel, just 25 made. — larger illustration (new window)...$3.00

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Leonard Bernstein

Dgn 111: Sc. 3521 Leonard Bernstein — 5"x7" Dragon Card, green background, printed photo of Bernstein conducting in formal dress, First Day of Issue hand cancel.. — larger illustration (new window)...$2.50

Dgn 111c: Sc. 3521 Leonard Bernstein — 5"x7" Dragon Card, green background, printed photo of Bernstein conducting in formal dress, with Stravinsky, Toscanini, American Music stamps, First Day of Issue hand cancel. FDOI cancel touches all 4 stamps. — larger illustration (new window)...$4.00

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MaxBern: Sc. 3521 Leonard Bernstein — Museum of Television & Radio picture postcard with the Hirschfeld caricature of Bernstein for a 1985 exhibition "Bernstein: The Television Work." — larger illustration (new window)...$5.00

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