July 3 - Betty Buckley (The Musical Birthday Series, 6th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for July 3rd are found here: Ruth Crawford Seeger (2019), Leos Janáček (2020), George M. Cohan (2021), Johnny Hartman (2022), and Audra McDonald (2023)

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Betty Buckley (b. 3 July 1947) is an American actress and singer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Life Was Beautiful Then

In 1982, Buckley starred as Grizabella in the original Broadway production of the musical Cats. She stayed with the production for 18 months. -- adapted from Wikipedia

Eighteen months on Broadway doing Cats

   For Betty Buckley probably was tough,

But in the end there’s recompense, and that’s,

  She certainly had memories enough!

 

 

 

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July 2 - Charles-Louis Hanon (The Musical Birthday Series, 6th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for July 2nd are found here: Christoph Willibald Gluck (2019), Charles-Louis Hanon (2020), Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck; Charles-Louis Hanon (2021), Frederick Fennell (2022), and Charles-Louis Hanon (2023)

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Charles-Louis Hanon (2 July 1819 – 19 March 1900) was a French piano pedagogue and composer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Oh So Virtuous Virtuoso

If Hanon is how you began,

And you drilled with his five-finger plan,

The fight you were waging

Was so unengaging,

That you doubtless detested the man!

 

 

 

 

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July 1 - Andraé Crouch, Hans Werner Henze (The Musical Birthday Series, 6th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for July 1st are found here: Hans Werner Henze (2019), Fred Schneider (2020), Hans Werner Henze (2021), Hans Werner Henze (2022), and Thomas A. Dorsey (2023)

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Andraé Crouch (1 July 1942 – 8 January 2015) was an American gospel singer, songwriter, arranger, record producer and pastor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not My Tribute

Perhaps you will call me a grouch

When you hear my reaction is “ouch”

If ever I’m heading

To a service or wedding

And see there’ll be music by Crouch.

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Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was an important German composer of the mid/late 20th century. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Collaborators

I wonder if Auden

Attempted to broaden

   The literature Henze embraced,

Or did Henze tell Auden

That the path he had trodden

   Had made him the model of taste?

 

 

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