Previous posts for May 18th may be found here: Perry Como (2019), Meredith Willson (2020), Margot Fonteyn (2021), Ezio Pinza; Boris Christoff, Meredith Willson (2023), and Meredith Willson (2024)
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Meredith Willson (18 May 1902 – 15 June 1984) had a varied and successful career as a musician, but is best remembered for his Broadway musicals.
Two Music Man Vignettes
"One Grecian Urn"
The well-cultured ladies took turns
In a pageant with tasteful concerns
Of the sort that one meets
In that poem by Keats
About classical Greeks and their urns.
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Trouble?
There were ladies in Classical poses,
There were men who intoned "Lida Roses;"
So the little town faced
A division of taste
In the contrast of "theses" and "thoses".
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