October 21 - Malcolm Arnold; Dizzy Gillespie (The Musical Birthday Series)

Malcolm Arnold (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was a composer equally comfortable in light music as in concert music.

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Malcolm Arnold 

Was the guy

Who wrote the march for

River Kwai.

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Dizzy Gillespie (21 October 1917 – 6 January 1993) was a trumpeter and one of the great jazz innovators of the mid-twentieth century.

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Dizzy Gillespie blew on his horn

   With the bell pointing out at an angle,

Night after night as bebop was born,

   In an improvised musical wrangle.

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