January 16 - Lin-Manuel Miranda; Marilyn Horne; Brian Ferneyhough (The Musical Birthday Series)

Lin-Manuel Miranda (b. 16 January 1980) is a highly successful theatrical jack of all trades.

Book Show; or, Miranda Writes

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Took risks when he planned a 

    Musical based on our founding.

The nation (consider it!)

Is mostly illiterate,

   Which makes its success more astounding.

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Marilyn Horne (b. 16  January 1934) is a mezzo especially knwon for her wide range and dazzling coloratura.

Mira, O Norma

When Horne and Sutherland sang in Norma

The curtain calls were not pro forma,

The duo inspired a kind of hysterics

That can’t be confused with curtain generics.

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Brian Ferneyhough (b. 16 January 1943) is a British composer of avant-garde classical music, now resident in California.

Difficulter and Difficulter

A score by Brian Ferneyhough

Will show how far a man will go

To get the cryptogram perplexity

That’s called “The New Complexity.”

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