December 17 - Arthur Fiedler; Domenico Cimarosa (The Musical Birthday Series)

Arthur Fiedler (17 December 1894 – 10 July 1979) was the beloved conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra.

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Arthur Fielder’s Boston Pops

Sometimes pulled out all the stops

With fireworks at concert ops,

And though there may have been some flops,

By and large there discs were tops

At all the better record shops.

To some the thing was infra dig,

But Arthur Fiedler was no prig,

For fifty years he did his job

And never was a high-brow snob.

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Domenico Cimarosa (17 December 1749 – 11 January 1801) was one of the preeminent Italian composers of his time.

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Domenico Cimarosa

  Wrote scores by the score.

He’d rush to compose a

  New one before

         The old one had been cheered.

With a decent libretto

  And music well-made,

Matrimonio Segreto

  Is sometimes still played,

          The rest have disappeared. 

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