Previous posts for January 7th are here: Francis Poulenc (2020), (2021), Jean-Pierre Rampal (2022), Francis Poulenc; Adam Krieger (2023), Jean-Pierre Rampal (2024), and Francis Poulenc (2025)
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Tommy Johnson (7 January 1935 - 16 October 2006) was an American orchestral tuba player.
I Must (not) Go Down to the Sea Again
He performed on more than 2,000 film soundtracks, most notably John Williams' Jaws score, in which he played a high-register tuba solo as the melodic theme for the shark. -- Wikipedia
Tommy Johnson? Who was he?
Prepare your due applause.
You've heard him play, because you see,
He played the theme from Jaws.
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Clara Haskil (7 January 1895 – 7 December 1960) was a Romanian classical pianist, renowned as an interpreter of the classical and early romantic repertoire.
Polite Refusal
Upon graduating, Haskil began to tour Europe, though her career was cut short by one of the numerous physical ailments she suffered throughout her life. Frequent illnesses, combined with extreme stage fright that appeared in 1920, kept her from critical or financial success. Most of her life was spent in abject poverty. --- excerpted from Wikipedia
Today my formidable task'll
Be to honor Clara Haskil,
Whose life and art were not amusing.
So please forgive me for refusing
To treat an artist such as she
With whimsical facitiae*.
*witty sayings (/fəˈsiʃiˌi/ fuh-SEE-shee-ee)
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