Previous posts for August 31st are here: Alma Mahler (2019), Joseph Schillinger (2020), and Alan Jay Lerner (2021)
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Amilcare Ponchielli (31 August 1834 – 16 January 1886) was an Italian opera composer, best known for his opera La Gioconda.
As If Dancing Ostriches Weren’t Bad Enough…
Although, in his lifetime, Ponchielli was very popular and influential only La Gioconda regularly performed today. It's ballet "The Dance of the Hours" is widely known thanks in part to its having been featured in Walt Disney's Fantasia and in Allan Sherman's novelty song, "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh". - adapted from Wikipedia
If Amilcare Ponchielli knew
That most of what he wrote had been forgotten,
Perhaps he’d blink, and wipe a tear or two,
And stoically accept that life was rotten.
But he would curse the heartless higher powers
With imprecations never heard in sermons,
To learn his dainty tune for dancing hours
Is now considered Mr. Allan Sherman’s.
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