Previous posts for March 1st are here: Dimitri Mitropoulos (2019), Frédéric Chopin (2020), and Frédéric Chopin; Harry Belafonte (2021)
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Frédéric Chopin (1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) remains one of the most popular of nineteenth century composers.
Études at Home
Said Chopin to one of his buddies,
“My neighbors are old fuddy-duddies,
They call the police
And they threaten my lease,
Whenever I play my new ‘Studies’.”
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Harry Belafonte (b. 1 March 1927) is an American singer, songwriter, activist, and actor.
Ignorance Is Bliss
When baseball crowds en masse sing Day-O,
I doubt that many know that they owe
This easy-on-the-cheering throat song
To Belafonte’s “Banana Boat Song”.
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Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore; March 1, 1917 – February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress, and television personality, and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1940s.
Shore Enough
A name we don’t hear anymore
Is that of singer Dinah Shore,
A career like hers, which was top drawer,
Especially in the years post-War,
Has proven easy to ignore. —
A fact there’s no accounting for.
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