September 21 - Gustav Holst; Billy Porter (The Musical Birthday Series)

Billy Porter (b. 21 September 1969) is an American theater performer, pop singer, and actor. 

Gustav Holst (21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was a British composer, several of whose works are concert staples.

Fashion Statements: Variations on a Theme

Variation 1

Conservatives grow pale and ashen

When faced with Billy Porter's fashion.

If he were merely debonaire,

Like Connery or Fred Astaire,

Why then, they surely wouldn’t care;

But faced with such flamboyant flair,

It gives their sense of things a scare.

His ballyhooed sartorial splendor

Upsets their rigid grasp of gender

Variation 2

Conservative critics grow ashen

When faced with such in-your-face fashion.

They think Billy Porter

Is spreading disorder,

When really he’s spreading a passion.

Holst, Bringer of Ticket Sales

There’s “Planet X, bringer of this,”

And “Planet Y, bringer of that”

It’s so easy to mock and dismiss,

But performances never fall flat.

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