Jessye Norman (15 September 1945 – 30 September 2019) was a great American dramatic soprano.
[For last year's limerick on Bobby Short click here.]
Sing Out!
Said a tenor who had to perform in
An intimate scene with Ms. Norman,
“I know, when she’s near me,
That no one can hear me,
So I yell like a bloody longshoreman.”
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Horatio Parker (15 September 1863 – 18 December 1919) was a distinguished American composer, organist and teacher, not largely remembered as one of Charles Ives's composition teachers
Parker Pen
Professor Horatio Parker
Got out his indelible marker,
“It gives me the hives
To work with young Ives,
And I wish that my marker were darker!”
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