AndrewJamison

Yes, indeed. We are back from a memorable week in Barcelona, where we heard Grigory Sokolov at the Palau de Musica – quite an experience! – and discovered a lovely museum displaying the works of Josep Subarichs, best known for his sculptures at the Passion Facade at Sagrada Familia. Here’s a small sample and a clip of Sokolov playing Brahms, as he did last week in Barcelona. We usually play his recording of Bach’s Art of the Fugue on Thursdays at Andy’s Corner, and this week we’ll also be playing a new Sokolov cd that I got in Barcelona. So that gives you one more reason to come by the shop.

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We’re off for a family visit to Barcelona on Monday and so the store will be closed next week. Do come by today if you are in the neighborhood. We have lots of new posters, including this one, which seems quite relevant in these trying times.

We’ll be open again on February 27.

I started using Facebook when I opened the shop in 2015, primarily as a way to tell people about our events and, on my personal page, to play with new ways of expressing myself by sharing pictures and stories and songs and poems and the occasional article that I found on the internet. I knew – we all knew – that Facebook, like all the other so-called social media, as well as the countless other apps that were increasingly taking over the internet, was in it for the money and that its owners were extremely unpleasant and greedy people. But, let’s face it, it was fun to be able to use it and so I kept telling myself that I wasn’t the problem, the problem was all those other people who misused it by telling lies and fostering hatred and, in the process, bringing the world to the sorry state in which it now finds itself.

Anyway, I can no longer see the positive value of social media in any way, shape or form. And so I will stop posting on Facebook. Please comment on this blog or send me an email, or even better, come by the shop if you wish to communicate with me in the future and/or create an event or activity at Andy’s Corner. As Bob Dylan once put it, “I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.”

On January 26, the Bellevue String Quartet will be returning to Andy’s Corner with a concert starting at 3 p.m. To get you in the mood, here is a concert they gave in the fall at a festival in Austria.

In June our friend Katlijn Sergeant, who plays in the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, asked if she could have a film made in the shop with her and Patrick Raab playing a new piece that Anders Koppel had written. And here it is. Enjoy!

The summer sale continues until the summer ends, which is next week, so do come by this week and load up on cds, lps, dvds, 45s, 78s, and pocket books at the unbelievably low price of 25 kronor. And, just to clarify, the fiction that is on sale for 50 kronor includes hardbound and large(r) softbound books, that is, all that aren’t able to fit into your pocket and are thus not bona fide pocket books.

We will be closed next week, Sept 26-28, while I am away visiting friends and family in the US, but whoever reads this is most welcome to stop by this week during the final countdown!

With so many generous people giving us stuff all the time and our storage rooms filled to capacity, I thought I could be generous myself and launch a summer sale.

Starting Thursday, June 27, all cds, dvds, lps, 78s, and pocket books will be on sale for 25 crowns and hardback fiction will cost 50.

Call it a dream come true and come by and load up!

Andy’s Corner is a second-hand bookstore in Malmö, Sweden that sells both scholarly and popular books in English and Swedish (and Danish, German, French, Spanish and a few other languages), as well as films, records, posters, and other cultural artifacts.

Andy’s Corner is owned and operated by Andrew Jamison. I am a retired university professor who taught in Copenhagen, Lund, Gothenburg, Aalborg and Malmö.

On the site, you will find information about my writings, in particular, the books and articles that I have published, as well as information about the store’s events. For more details about my long and winding life please go to my old university website – https://homes.plan.aau.dk/andy – where there are links to many of my articles and lectures and even to some songs I recorded back in 2008.

I look forward to hearing from you and seeing you in the shop.

email: andyscornerse@gmail.com

telephone: +46(0)730676457