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N.Y. (AP) - A collection of 400 antique bicycles owned by a suburban Buffalo museum is being sold to an overseas buyer for $4 million.
Carl Burgwardt, and Antique fireplace mantles
the owner of the Pedaling History Bicycle Museum in Orchard Park, and Antique fireplace mantles
says he's selling the collection after it wasn't included plans to redevelop Buffalo's Erie Canal Harbor area.
The plans call for museums at the downtown site, and Antique fireplace mantles
but the development agency hasn't decided which ones to include.Burgwardt says a confidentiality agreement with the buyer prevents him from discussing where the collection is going.
The collection ranges from a wooden two-wheeler made in 1817 to iconic Schwinn bicycles. Many of the older bikes were made by Buffalo factories that later shifted to automobile manufacturing in the early 20th century.Information from: The Buffalo News, and Antique fireplace mantles
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Amore KNOX: Malor me bat; MARAIS: Les Folies dEspagne; MOSER: Manners of Speaking; HUME: A Pavin; ARIOSTI: Prima Lezione; HUBER: Plainte; TRADITIONAL: Celtic Dance; I Once Loved a Lass; Jig Garth Knox, viola damore/ Agnes Vesterman, cello ECM New Series 1925, 54:06 :
Garth Knox, whose credits include the Ensemble InterContemporain and the Arditti String Quartet, has fallen in love with the 14-pegged, 7-string viola damore, an instrument without a country, and one that has been poking its nose into all sorts of music for hundreds of years, yet never quite establishing itself anywhere. Knox has evidently decided that enough is enough, and decided to dedicate an entire CD to showcasing the abilities and beauties of this unusual instrument.
Though Agnes Vesterman does a lot of heavy lifting in the duo parts of this recording, it still remains very much Knoxs show, as we can see from the opening work by the performer himself based on a song attributed to Johannes Ockeghem, Malor me bat (misfortune batters me). This work, perhaps more than any on the disc, demonstrates the remarkable versatility and ravishingly gorgeous tone that the instrument is capable of producing, and elevates it to a truly modern levelwe do not think of the renaissance when hearing this piece, nor do we consider the instrument as an antique.
Basically the program shifts from the modern to the early baroque, and to great effect. My favorite olden work here is probably the Attilio Ariosti Prima Lezione, one of his Stockholm Sonatas, a wondrous work played passionately by Mr

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