January 3 - Victor Borge; Henriette Sontag (The Musical Birthday Series)

Victor Borge (3 January 1909 – 23 December 2000) was a Danish-born comedian and pianist.

In Which the Dane Deigns to Entertain

When Borge sat down at the keyboard,

He made sure that his fans wouldn’t be bored.

His comic routines

Were belovéd and seen

At venues from seaboard to seaboard.

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Henriette Sontag (3 January 1806 – 17 June 1854) was an important operatic soprano in the early nineteenth century.

Starting at the Top

When Henriette Sontag

Was still in her teens

  She sang an important premiere.

It was Beethoven’s Ninth,

And think what that means

  To a girl at the start of her career.

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