March 1 - Frédéric Chopin; Glenn Miller (The Music Birthday Series, 5th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for March 1st are here: Dimitri Mitropoulos (2019), Frédéric Chopin (2020), Frédéric Chopin; Harry Belafonte (2021), Frédéric Chopin; Harry Belafonte; Dinah Shore (2022)

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Frédéric Chopin (1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) remains one of the most popular of nineteenth century composers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cultivating Your Audience

The genres that Chopin embraced

Were adapted to elegant taste;

He soon was a craze

At Parisian soirées

Among the palatially placed.

 

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Glenn Miller (1 March 1904 – 15 December 1944) was an American leader, composer, arranger, trombone player, and recording artist before and during World War II.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You Can't Please Everyone

Although Miller was popular, many jazz critics had misgivings. They believed that the band's endless rehearsals—and, according to critic Amy Lee in Metronome magazine, "letter-perfect playing"—removed feeling from their performances. – Wikipedia

Glenn Miller saw to fit to demand

Perfection when leading his band,

But his critics inveighed

The this regimen made

Their playing predictably bland.

 

 

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