November 29 - Gustave Reese; Gaetano Donizetti (The Musical Birthday Series)

Gustave Reese (29 November 1899 – 7 September 1977) was a towering figure in mid-century American musicology.

Sic transit

Gustave Reese whose books were weighty.

Read ‘til circa 1980,

Now, perhaps, they are passé,

But you should read them anyway.

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Gaetano Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was one of the most important and popular 
of nineteenth-century opera composers.

And So It Goes

Lucia, in Lammermoor plaid,

Is told that her man was a cad.

So, urged by her brother,

She marries another,

Then sings a sextet, and goes mad.

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