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.
Listen to her records, and it
Might be hard to understand it,
Vocal fans in yesteryears
Heard her 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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