Previous posts for March 9 are found here: Martin Shaw (2019), Samuel Barber (2020), Ornette Coleman; Samuel Barber (2021), Samuel Barber; Josef Mysliveček (2023), Samuel Barber (2024), and Samuel Barber (2025)
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Samuel Barber (9 March 1910 – 23 January 1981) was an important American composer in all the major classical genres.
Never Say Can't
However, Briselli was disappointed when he received the third movement from Barber; according to Barber, his reasons were that "1st, he could not safely learn it for January; 2nd, it was not violinistic; 3rd, it did not suit musically the other two movements, it seemed to him rather inconsequential." -- Wikipedia, s.v. "Violin Concerto (Barber)"
When Briselli declared the concerto unplayable,
And Barber said words then considered unsayable,
The concerto was played by another performer
Whose reaction was friendlier, braver, and warmer.
And then the concerto that Briselli had slandered
Was quickly endorsed as a repertoire standard.
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Phoebe Knapp (9 March 1839 –10 July 1908) was an American composer of music for hymns and an organist.
This Is Her Story
She composed the music for over five hundred hymn. -- Wikipedia
The hymns of Phoebe (Palmer) Knapp,
Though "Blessed Assurance" was one of them,
Have largely fallen off the map,
In spite of her writing a ton of them.
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