Previous posts for August 15th are here: Jacques Ibert (2019), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (2020), Oscar Peterson; Lukas Foss (2021), Rose Marie (2022), and Bobby Helms (2023)
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Jacques Ibert (15 August 1890 – 5 February 1962) was a French composer.
Le Goût Français
When Jacques Ibert amused the town,
It wasn't as a vulgar clown;
Leaving pratfalls (also sermons)
To the crude (but pious) Germans;
Leaving loud guffaws and whoops
To antics from Italian troupes;
Leaving Punch and Judy’s gore
To the Channels’ other shore;
Shirking from the slightest rumor
Of anything like Russian humor.
He did, instead, his comic bit
With elegance and Gallic wit.
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