Previous posts for June 17th are found here: Charles Gounod (2019), Charles Gounod (2020) Igor Stravinsky (2020), Igor Stravinsky; Jerry Fielding (2021), Sidney Jones; Igor Stravinsky (2022), and Charles Gounod (2023)
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Charles Gounod (17 June 1818 – 17 or 18 October 1893) was once enormously popular as an opera composer. Several of his works still hold the stage today.
Advice for Listeners
Come forth and light your flabeau
As we celebrate Charles Gounod!
Whose saccharine passion
Has gone out of fashion,
(This limerick continued below).
Though his passion is tawdry and faux,
Just surrender and go with the flow;
And when you surrender,
His treacly splendor
Induces a sugary glow.
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“Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Gounod.”
Imagine if Charles Gounod
Wrote music for Beckett’s Godot:
He’d muddle the riddle
With ballet in the middle,
Which would strangely encumber the show!
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