Frédéric Chopin (1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) remains one of the most popular of nineteenth century composers.
[For previous March 1st posts click on the names: Frédéric Chopin and Dimitri Mitropoulos.]
Table Talk with Chopin: Five Limericks on the Same Rhyme
Said Chopin, his eyes all ablaze,
“I’ve written a new polonaise!
It’s heroic and bold
And is sure to take hold
At the swankier sort of soirées.”
And then, “Though the public may praise
The dances the pianist plays,
They’re much too advanced
To be actually danced,
They were written to stun and amaze.”
He continued, “Stop asking for ways
To simplify this or that phrase.
I won’t change a note!
I wrote what I wrote!
And once it is written, it stays!”
And later, when in a milaise,
“Perhaps I should lower my gaze,
And write what survives
In our diners and dives,
And in lower-bourgeois cabarets.”
He concluded, “That mood was a phase,
A strange hypothetical haze, --
I cannot see me in
A place so plebeian.”
Then arose, as he bid his “good days”.
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Harry Belafonte (b. 1 March 1927) is an American singer, songwriter, activist, and actor.
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His breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist. — Wikipedia
Once you had to take a trip so
You could revel in calypso,
Thus, when Belafonte brought it
To the mainland, people thought it
Was delightful and they bought it
With appreciative euphoria
From their neighborhood emporia.
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