October 27 - Conlon Nancarrow (The Musical Birthday Series, 3rd Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for October 27th are here: Niccolò Paganini; Conlon Nancarrow (2019) and Niccolò Paganini (2020)

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Conlon Nancarrow (27 October 1912 – 10 August 1997) was an experimental composer 

of pieces of enormous complexity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Counting Your Blessings

If Conlon Nancarrow

Had written Bolero,

There’d be metrical riddles

(With no paradiddles)

That no one would dare

To attempt on the snare.

 

 

 

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