Previous posts for November 25th are here: Scott Joplin (2019), Teddy Wilson (2020), Charles Theodore Pachelbel (2021), Scott Joplin; Alfred Schnittke (2022), and Scott Joplin (2023)
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Scott Joplin (24 November 1868 – 1 April 1917) was a great American ragtime composer and pianist.
Music Therapy
When your spirits are starting to sag,
And your “mindful” routine is a drag,
You can take a first step
Towards more vigor and pep
By playing a Scott Joplin rag.
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Lilli Lehmann (24 November 1848 – 17 May 1929) was a great German dramatic soprano, voice teacher, and animal welfare advocate.
Prima Donna
She herself looks the image of high disdain, and studiously disagreeable. That is the difficulty: she so insistently set and embodied the loftiest standards that it is hard to exercise affectionate indulgence when she falls short of them. – www.gramophone.co.uk, review of a CD compilation
Lilli Lehmann ruled the stage
Back in opera’s Golden Age.
If you try to understand it,
Listen to her records, and it
Shows that folks in yesteryears
Heard a voice with different ears.
How, we wonder, did they glory in
Voice production that stentorian.
There’s a lesson here, and that’s
That taste in voices, shoes, and hats
Changes as the decades pass,
And nothing stays the same – alas!
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