Previous posts for February 14th are here: Renée Fleming (2020), Aida Overton Walker (2021), Francesco Cavalli; Alexander Dargomyzhsky (2022), Francesco Cavalli; Fernando Sor (2023), and Michael Costa; Irving Gordon (2024)
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Víkingur Ólafsson (b. 14 February 1984) is a Grammy Award-winning Icelandic classical pianist.
Double Dactyl for V. O.
NB. A double dactyl is a biographically inspired humorous poem with very strict structural rules. Here are links to two definitions for those who are curious. The first from the Poetry Foundation is clearer but less accurate than the second, from Wikipedia. Take your pick. The classic statement is the book Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls by Anthony Hecht and John Hollander (New York, 1967).
But now I find another metaphor more apt: that of a grand oak tree, no less magnificent, but somehow organic, living and vibrant, its forms both responsive and regenerative, its leaves constantly unfurling to produce musical oxygen for its admirers through some metaphysical, time-bending photosynthesis.” – Víkingur Ólafsson on Bach’s Goldberg Variations at www.theguardian.com
Higgledy-piggledy
Víkingur Ólafsson
Played through the Goldbergs
Again and again,
Thereby affecting his
Neurobiology,
Since Bach brings Nirvana
To mere mortal men.
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Fred Scott (14 February 1902 – 16 December 1991) was an American actor best known as a singing cowboy star in Westerns during the 1930s and 1940s.
Sic transit
A household name
Fred Scott
Is not,
He staked a claim,
Was hot
To trot, ---
But who's to blame?
He got
His shot.
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