Previous postings for March 21st may be found here: J. S. Bach [sic] (2019), Modest Mussorgsky (2020), Modest Mussorgsky; Hermann Finck (2021), Modest Mussorgski (2022), and Modest Mussorgski (2023)
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Thurlow Lieurance (21 March 1878 – 9 October 1963) was an American composer, known primarily for his song "By the Waters of Minnetonka". He was an influential collector and publisher of indigenous North American music.
By the Waters on Minnetonka
In October 1911 he recorded a Crow (Apsalooke) (maybe Ogala Lakota Sioux) singer, Sitting Eagle, also known as Mortimer Dreamer, then living on the Crow Reservation in Montana. From this recording he took the melody for his song "By the Waters of Minnetonka". He set it to a harp-like accompaniment. – Wikipedia
There’s just one song that fuels the flame
Of Thurlow Lieurence’s fragile fame,
And even there young Thurlow drew
On Native music, Crow or Sioux.
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Modest Mussorgsky (21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1839 – 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1881) was a Russian composer.
I Say MÚS-ər-skiy, and You Say Mu-SÓRK-skiy
For a full discussion of Mussorgsky’s name, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modest_Mussorgsky#Name
There is a kind guessing game
On how to say Mussorgsky’s name.
The placement of the stress is fillable
By both the first or second syllable.
A problem faced by learnéd mystics
Who probe the riddles of linguistics.
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