April 19 - Dudley Moore (The Musical Birthday Series, 5th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for April 19th may be found here: Germaine Tailleferre (2019), Jonathan Tunick (2020), David Fanshawe (2021). and Orazio Benevoli (2022)

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Dudley Moore (19 April 1935 – 27 March 2002) was an English actor, comedian, musician and composer. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Even Moore to Love

You may not know that Dudley Moore

Could find his way around a score,

And worked throughout his lifetime as

A skillful pianist playing jazz,

And also in Beyond the Fringe

Wrote clever parodies that hinge

On knowing Beethoven and Britten

Were skewered in the notes he’d written.

 

 

 

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