Previous posts for April 22rd may be found here: Alfred Burt (2019), Ethel Smyth (2021), Joshua Rifkin, and Glen Campbell (2021), and Giuseppe Torelli (2022)
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Alfred Burt (22 April 1920 – 7 February 1954) was an American jazz musician who is best known for composing the music for fifteen Christmas carols on family cards between 1942 and 1954.
Caroling, Caroling
Only one of the carols was performed in public outside his immediate family circle during his lifetime. -- Wikipedia
Although it’s not December now
Take this as your alert
To sit up and remember now
The work of Alfred Burt.
The carols from his yearly cards
Were just a private whim,
Conveying holiday regards
To kith and kin from him.
He never dreamt that they would be
Belov’d and much recorded,
Or of the family legacy
These little gifts afforded.
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