Previous posts for October 21st are here: Malcolm Arnold; Dizzy Gillespie (2019) and Joseph Canteloube (2020)
Malcolm Arnold (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was a composer equally comfortable in light music as in concert music.
Malcolm in the Middlebrow
Sir Malcolm Arnold, CBE,
Is a most perplexing case.
When writing music that would be
Taken to the crowd’s embrace,
Was he pandering when he
Aimed frankly at the marketplace?
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