February 22 - Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska (The Musical Birthday Series, 6th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for February 22nd are here:  Marni Nixon (2020), Johann Ambrosius Bach; Johann Nikolaus Forkel (2021), Niels Gade; Nacio Herb Brown (2022), Jan August Vitásek (2023), and Johann Ambrosius Bach (2024)

+++++++++++++++++++++++

Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska (22 February 1912 – 14 March 1994) was a Polish pianist, music educator and composer.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enjambment for a Grandly Named Musician

Enjambment is the running-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation; the opposite of end-stopped. –  slightly adapted from poetryfoundation.org

Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska

Inscribed her name in full and groused, co-

-mplaining that the space allotted

To sign one’s name above the dotted 

Line was skimpy and too short

For any name of her import.

Alas, she spent her weary  life en-

-cumbered with that clumsy hyphen!

 

 

If you enjoy these posts, please help me, and consider sharing.  [Also, please visit my other blog: Alternate Takes: Great Art Repurposed.]