Previous posts for June 21th are found here: Alois Hába (2019), Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (2020), Lalo Schifrin (2021), and Henry Holden Huss; Louis Krasner (2022)
Ernest II (21 June 1818 – 22 August 1893) was Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1844 to 1893, and an amateur composer. — Wikipedia
Duking It Out
When it was discovered that a third performance of Diana was intended at the Met, a petition bearing three hundred signatures and demanding that the opera be removed from the repertory, was delivered to the management, who hastily replaced it with Fidelio. – adapted from Wikipedia, s.v. “Diana von Solange”
Diana von Solange by Ernest the Second
Was performed at the Met, and was instantly reckoned
So boring and dull that an urgent appeal
Was drafted and signed to preclude the ordeal
Of having to sit through Diana’s recurrence,
A feat that would challenge mere mortal endurance.
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