Previous posts for August 26 are here: Leon Redbone (2019), Humphrey Searle (2020), Nico Muhly; Aloys Schmitt (2021), Aloys Schmitt (2022), and Nico Muhly (2023)
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Harriet Ware (26 August 1877 – 9 February 1962) was an American composer, pianist, and music educator.
Ware Are You?
Her "Women's Triumphal March" was the official song of the general Federation of Women’s Clubs in 1929. Her works were especially popular in programs of American song, or in programs focused on women composers. – adapted from Wikipedia
This now-forgotten Harriet Ware
Was said to have a certain flair.
There must have been both verve and vim in
The Triumphal March she wrote for women,
And I have read that for a while
Her charming songs were much in style,
And yet in tiny Waupun’s bars,
When Waupun toasts its brightest stars,
Her name is missing from the rolls
Of those receiving beery “skols!”
And now you know, but may not care,
About Wisconsin’s Harriet Ware,
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