May 11 - Joseph Marx (The Musical Birthday Series, 2nd Yearly Cycle)

Joseph Marx (11 May 1882 - 3 September 1964) was an Austrian composer whose works cling to the fringes of the repertoire.
[For last years post on Irving Berlin click here].

Marx My Words

A singer now and then embarks

To sing the songs of Joseph Marx,

A repertoire so ripe and lush

It teeters on the edge of mush;

A repertoire that aims to please

By being just a few degrees

Beyond the realm of normal keys

In ravishing epiphanies.

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