Previous posts for May 17th may be found here: Erik Satie (2019), Birgit Nilsson and Zinka Milanov (2020), Erik Satie (2021), Erik Satie; Enya (2022), and Erik Satie (2023)
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Erik Satie (17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925) has influenced and inspired composers for more than a century, perhaps more for his attitude than the intrinsic worth of his music.
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From about 1910 he became the focus of successive groups of young composers attracted by his unconventionality and originality. – Wikipedia
Erik Satie, though very odd,
Became a kind of minor god
To those among the younger set
Who very soon were in his debt.
His music, once dismissed as twaddle
Became their new aesthetic model.
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Bob Merrill (17 May 1921 – 17 February 1998) was an American songwriter, theatrical composer, lyricist, and screenwriter.
Luckiest People in the World
Make certain that there’ll
Be cheers for Bob Merrill!
Let ringing resound from the steeple!
He was in the Top Ten
As composer, and then,
He, of course, wrote the lyrics “People”.
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