Previous postings for April 11th may be found here: Alberto Ginastera (2019) and Louise Reichardt (2020)
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Gee Whiz
During his later years, he preferred to use the Catalan and Italian pronunciation of his surname – IPA: [dʒinasˈteɾa], with an initial soft 'G' like that of English 'George' – rather than with a Spanish 'J' sound (IPA: [xinasˈteɾa]). -- Wikipedia
His European blood was mixed,
He hailed from Buenos Aires,
And so his name was caught betwixt,
And pronunciation varies.
It’s more complex than it appears
Regardless of its spelling,
The G was, in his later years,
A soft G as in “gelling”.
I’ll spell it out in IPA
As he himself preferred it,
And then you’ll know what you should say
No matter how you’ve heard it.
Though in his youth perhaps he tried
To go by [xinasˈteɾa]
It seems quite clear before he died
He favored [dʒinasˈteɾa].
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