NINA P. BRICKER and LUCIEN WANG
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MARCH 30, 2021 Mr. Cole, I ran across your website while doing research on my grandfather's cousin, Nina Bricker. It appears you have a book which once belonged to her. I'm curious as to where you came across it, and if I might inquire as to whether or not you would be interested in selling it? If not, I certainly understand. Ms. Bricker led a very interesting life as an engineer, world traveler and lecturer. Sincerely - Kelly Bricker

MARCH 31, 2021 from ME:
I can send you the book if you give me an address. I've had others contact me and others I have contacted regarding old bookplates and the like on my website.

One book, TARZAN AND THE LOST EMPIRE had the bookplate of Marion Edwards Shouse, the wife of Jouett Shouse the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Woodrow Wilson. I'm glad the family didn't want the book because it was just about my favorite Tarzan book and a cool copy.   Cuentos Americanos though is not dear to me, so you can have it if you like. I don't need any bread.

My notes have it that Nina Bricker died in Phoenix and I live nearby so I guess I bought the book at Goodwill or in a used bookstore around here.

I was curious about Nina Bricker and so if you could pass on what you learn about her or her friend Lucien Wang, that would be great.

MARCH 31, 2021 FROM KELLY BRICKER: I’d be more than happy to send you what I know about her. If you can provide an email address (mine is @yahoo.com) I can send you what I’ve learned about her. We’re actually in Sedona currently and will be returning to our primary home in Colorado on the 16th. If you trust the mail to deliver in 2 weeks, you can send it to xxx Sedona AZ, 86336. Otherwise you can wait 2 weeks and I’ll give you our CO address. Thank you so much!

MARCH 31, 2021 from ME: I'm sure mail gets to Sedona from Chandler in a couple of days. I found a hardbound thesis that my dad had signed off on in Mexico and the woman (who got her Ph.D. in mollusks) had a grandson who's coincidentally FB friends with someone I know.

He wants it, so perhaps I can mail both books tomorrow. I got my two shots ages ago, so I'm ready to go to the post office. Here's the page about the person with the thesis:

https://www.tomhascallcole.com/Carol%20Skoglund.html

MARCH 31, 2021 FROM KELLY BRICKER: I must say you have quite an eclectic collection and it must feel good connecting people with long lost and forgotten items. Also good to hear you're fully vaxxed up. My wife gets her second Friday and mine is in a couple of weeks. I'm doing a little more research on Nina Bricker so that I can give you a fuller sense of who she was. Also, I didn't know anything about her connection to Lucien Wang, so that was an added bonus for me. Once I have your email address and put her bio in a legible format, I will send along all I know about her.

MARCH 31, 2021 ME: Great!

Records show that Nina P. Bricker was born on January 13th, 1913. Historic records show that Nina died November 17th, 1989 in Phoenix, Arizona.
Nina P Bricker Birth Date 13 Jan 1913
Death Date: 17 Nov 1989
Last Residence: Phoenix, AZ

During her travels, Lucien Wang also made new friends from outside the music circle who would then go on to become life-long pen pals, such as Nina P. Bricker [viii], who was a then research engineer for Goodyear Aircraft Corporation when they first met in Athens in 1956.

SHE WAS A PEN PAL OF LUCIEN WANG:
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LUCIEN WANG: ARCHIVE, MEMORY, BIOGRAPHY

ISBN: 978-981-07-5877-6

Lucien Wang (1909 - 2007) was a famous piano teacher in Singapore who spent more than 40 years of her life teaching piano to students, grooming many of the country's talented musicians such as Ong Lip Tat, Lim Jing Jing and Benjamin Loh. As a musician who trained at the Conservatoir de Musique de Lausanne and the École Normale de Musique de Paris under the great pianists Alfred Cortot and Joseph Morpain, she first taught music in the Singapore branch of Lingnan University and Nanyang Girls' High School. She was also a fine art student at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), graduating from the sixth cohort of the Academy that was established in 1938. Her belongings and documents were donated to NAFA for the purpose of archiving and documentation after she moved into a nursing home.

This book is published after a successful collaboration between the Institute of Southeast Asian Arts (ISEAA) at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) and the University Scholars Programme (USP) at National University of Singapore (NUS), in which the two organisations worked together on a new module entitled 'Singapore Studies: Archives, Biography, Memory in Singapore' taught in the USP in 2012.

The texts here represent a selection of those that were written by the students in the course, ranging in form from watercolour painting through essays that make substantial use of photographs and print medium.

Text in English.

Published by Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 2013

PERFORMING ARTISTE - WANG, LUCIEN

Lucien Wang (Wong Maan Shing)

1909 - Born 3 February in Guangzhou, China
1914-1918 - Attended Guangzhou True Light Primary School
1919-1922 - Attended Guangzhou True Light Secondary School
1923-1925 - Studied in Canton Christian College (also known as Lingnan University), Guangzhou, majoring in Arts & Education and furthered her studies at Beijing Conservatory
1926-1927 - Taught in Beijing Jin Shi School in Western history, World Geography, Music and English as well as being a Discipline Mistress of the Girls' Department
1930-1934 - Tutelage under Mr Alfred Cortot at L'Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris
1935-1936 - Attended Trinity College of Music in London
1936 - Returned to Guangzhou due to the outbreak of Pacific War. Appointed professor at the Canton Music Conservatory and Head of Music Department at the Guangdong Provincial Girls' Normal School
1937 - Married a Peking-born electrical engineer Wang Zou Houei on 5 May in Guangzhou
1939 - Together with her husband, they left for Singapore to escape the beginnings of the Second Sino-Japanese war
1939-1941 - Taught music at Nanyang Girls' High School and the Singapore branch of Lingnan University
1942 - Husband went missing during the Sook Ching massacre in Singapore. During this period, she gave private piano lessons
1945 - Became a member of Singapore Music Teacher Association (SMTA)
1946 - Published a collection of songs titled containing 17 pieces
1947 - Her mother left Guangzhou to live with her in Singapore
1950s - Attended Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts a s a fine art student and graduated from the sixth cohort of the Academy
1953 - Attended a course in music interpretation at L'Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, Paris under Alfred Cortot in June
1953 - Attended a course in music interpretation at Conservatoire de Musique de Lausanne, Switzerland under Alfred Cortot from 4 to 20 September
1953 - Attended classes in vocal training at the Scuola di Educazione Vocale di Manfredi Polverosi, Rome in October
1956 - Took piano lessons in modern piano technique under Alfred Cortot in Lausanne
1957 - Became a Singapore citizen
1959 - Took advanced piano lessons at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana under Alfred Cortot and Guido Agosti
1970 - Her mother passed away in Singapore
1978 - Organized a music concert to commemorate the centenary of Alfred Cortot's birth
1979 - The first musician in Singapore to receive the award " the Bintang Bakti Masharakat" [Public Service Star Award (Silver)] on National Day
1983 - "40 Years Honour Concert" led by former students to commemorate her 40 years of teaching
1996 - Sent to East Coast Convalescent Centre ( also known as ECM Medical Group) by her godson
2000 - Donated memorabilia of her life to the NAFA library, including private letters and official documents,certificates, photographs, paintings, sculptures and calligraphic works, scores, books, and a collection of old currency notes
2005 - Visited "Celebrity Room" at NAFA new campus, a special room designated to display her valuable collection
2007 - Passed away on 2 June at Changi General Hospital at the age of 98.

Positions Held
- Honorary Advisor for the Heralds Choral Society
- Honorary Principal for the Young Voices Choir
- Member of Singapore Music Association
- Member of Singapore Music Teachers' Association

Major Music Works
("Yearning Person") - Music composed and lyrics written by Lucien Wang
("Why Not Return") - Music composed and lyrics written by Lucien Wang on 25 Dec 1945
("To A Missing One") - Music composed and lyrics written by Lucien Wang, Lyrics translated by Tsai Tze Sinn
("Contentment") - Music composed and lyrics written by Lucien Wang on 18 Aug 1982
("My Little Song")- Lyrics (Poem) by Lucien Wang taken from the English poem "Flower in the mirror and Moon in the water" and Music composed by Hwang Yau-Tai
("Yellow Crane Building") - Music composed by Lucien Wang and lyrics written by Tang Dynasty poet Cui Hao
("Wind Bridge Night Drift") - Music composed by Lucien Wang on 24 Dec 1983 and lyrics written by Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Ji
(Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Academy anthem) - Music composed by Lucien Wang and Lyrics written by NAFA founding principal Lim Hak Tai
("Pain of Thoughts") - Music composed by Lucien Wang and lyrics written by Tan Tse Chor on 10 Mar 1982
("Stoneworkers Song") - Music composed by Lucien Wang and lyrics written by modern poet Xu Zhi Mo
("Wish") - Music composed by Lucien Wang and lyrics written by Tsai Tze Sinn
("We are the Vanguard") - Music composed by Lucien Wang and lyrics written by Zi Sheng
("Bold as the Lion") - Music composed by Lucien Wang and lyrics written by B.C. Heng
("'V'Victory") - Music composed and lyrics written by Lucien Wang, Chinese lyrics written by Tsai Tze Sinn
("Little Mouse") - Music composed by Lucien Wang and lyrics is Qin Dynasty Folk Song
("Great Courage Song") - Music composed by Lucien Wang and lyrics written by Gao Guan Tian
("Construction Song") - Music composed by Lucien Wang and Lyrics written by Tsai Tze Sinn

黄晚成简历
黄晚成
1909- 出生于中国广东省。
1914-1922 - 在广东省美国教会主办的寄宿学校中完成中小学教育。
1923-1925 - 考入岭南大学，修读艺术教育系，毕业后考入北京音专。
1926-1927 - 在北京一所中学边教书边追随俄籍音乐家Hovath学钢琴。
1930-1934 - 赴巴黎拜在Alfred Corrot门下学艺。
1935-1936 - 考入英国三一音专。
1936 - 二战爆发，回国执教于广东省立女子师范学校及广州音专。
1937 - 五月与在巴黎结识的电子工程师王祖辉结婚。
1939 - 为躲避日军侵略，避难南来新加坡。
1939-1941 - 在南洋女中教音乐。
1942 - 丈夫于日据时期中的大检证一去不反，坚强的她开始投身教琴生涯。
1945 - 成为新加坡教师工会会员。
1946 - 创作17首歌，并发表在《新的歌》中。
1947 - 把母亲接来新加坡同住。
1950s - 进入南洋美专选修西洋美术课程。并成为美专第六届毕业生。
1953 - 游学欧洲，回到Cortot 门下参加一些短期课程。
1956 - 继续追随老师 Alfred Cortot 选修现代钢琴。
1957 - 成为新加坡公民。
1970 - 母亲去世。
1978 - 举办纪念先师Alfred Cortot's诞辰音乐会。
1979 - 在国庆日获总统颁发“公共服务银星勋章”，是本地音乐届的第一人。
1983 - 她的学生为其主办“音乐教学40年 - 黄晚成声乐作品发表及学生钢琴演奏会”。
1996 - 晚年入住东海岸康复疗养院。
2000 - 把一生的收藏，包括手稿书信相片等，全部捐献给南艺图书馆。
2005 - 与弟子等一起参观南艺图书馆“名人捐献室”，重温往日的温情。
2007 - 六月二与世长辞，终年98岁。

黄晚成主要作品
- 怀人
- 胡不归（1945年）
- 给一位失踪的人
- 知足常乐（1982年）
- 我的小歌 - 作词黄晚成（取自诗《镜花水月》，作曲黄友棣。
- 黄鹤楼 - 作曲黄晚成，词取自唐（崔颢）
- 枫桥夜泊 - 作曲黄晚成，词取自唐（张继）
- 南艺院歌 - 作曲黄晚成，作词林学大
- 相思苦 - 作曲黄晚成，作词Tan Tse Chor （1982年）
- 庐山石工歌 - 作曲黄晚成，作词徐志摩
- 祈望 - 作曲黄晚成，作词 Tsai Tze Sinn
- 我们来当先锋 - 作曲黄晚成，作词子声
- Bold as the Lion - 作曲黄晚成，作词 B.C. Heng
- 'V'胜利 - 作曲黄晚成，作词 Tsai Tze Sinn
- 小老鼠 - 作曲黄晚成，词取自秦朝民歌
- 大勇歌 - 作曲黄晚成，作词高冠天
- 建设歌 - 作曲黄晚成，作词 Tsai Tze Sinn