January 3 - Victor Borge (The Musical Birthday Series, 2nd Annual Cycle)

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

[For last year's verses on Victor Borge and Henriette Sontag click here.] 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unfinished Masterpieces

Victor Borge, whose comic routine

Enlivened the classical scene,

Would start a few bars

Of a favorite of ours,

But clowning would soon intervene.

A Lively Old Elf

Victor Borge had mastered the trick

Of a middle-brow musical schtick.

His adept comic timing

At mugging and miming,

(Like Santa), was “lively and quick”.

 

 

 

 

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