February 5 - Ole Bull (The Musical Birthday Series, 6th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for February 5th are here: Ole Bull (2020), Barrett Strong; Christian Gottlob Neefe (2021), Grażyna Bacewicz (2022), Ole Bull (2023), and Christian Gottlob Neefe (2024)

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Ole Bull (5 February 1810 – 17 August 1880) was a internationally renowned Norwegian violinist. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bully Pulpit

When internationally-acclaimed Norwegian violinist Ole Bull came to Madison in January 1868, tickets for his concert were going for ten dollars apiece, five times what most men could hope to earn in a day. Bull was used to that kind of hoopla. –adapted from Norman Gilliland, wisconsinlife.org

Ole Bull was legendary

  In the young United States,

Taking tours across the prairie

  Playing sold out concert dates.

Ole Bull, the veteran showman

  Brought some sweetness to the lives

Of prairie-dwelling Yankee yeomen,

  And their exhausted prairie wives.

 

 

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