Previous posts for April 3rd may be found here: Reginald De Koven (2019), Alessandro Stradella (2020), Wayne Newton (2021), Watkins Shaw (2022), Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (2023), Richard Proulx (2024), and Zez Confrey (2025)
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Joseph Kerman (3 April 1924 – 17 March 2014) was an important American musicologist and music critic.
Lacuna
You can search on your own to determine
If there's ever been limericks on Kerman,
But if, or if not,
I will give it a shot,
And that is a promise I'm firm in.
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Byrd on the Hand
Perhaps you may never have heard
Of this erudite expert on Byrd,
Whose learned conjectures
Were presented in lectures
When Renaissance scholars conferred.
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Vissi d'arte
Among the operas Kerman discussed in the book was Puccini's Tosca which he controversially described as a "shabby little shocker". --Wikipedia
"It's shabby, a shocker, and little,"
Said Kerman, while spitting his spittle,
But fans of the show
Who continued to go,
Are affected by him not a tittle.
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