April 29 - Steve Norquist (The Musical Birthday Series, 8th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for April 29th may be found here: me (2019), me (2020), me (2021), me (2022), me (2023), me (2024), and (2025)

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Steve Norquist (b. 29 April 1954) writes this blog.  He is a musicologist and pianist, and performs obscure, undeservedly forgotten, and just plain odd piano music at his YouTube channel Piano Curiosities with Steve Norquist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time Passing

The calendar worked its way through,

And Steve is now seventy-two;.

He'll continue to make

The egregious mistake

Of writing this birthday review.

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Etiquette

It happens each year at this time,

That I feature MYSELF in a rhyme,

Though they say it's bad manners

To hoist one's own banners,

Or ring one's own clarion chime.

 

 

 

 

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April 29 - Steve Norquist (The Musical Birthday Series, 7th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for April 29th may be found here: me (2019), me (2020), me (2021), me (2022), me (2023), me (2024)

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Steve Norquist (b. 29 April 1954) writes this blog.  He is a musicologist and pianist, and performs obscure, undeservedly forgotten, and just plain odd piano music at his YouTube channel Piano Curiosities with Steve Norquist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Verse about.... Me

Each day, with a verse to conceive,

He rolls up his figurative sleeve,

And cobbles away

At his metrical play, —-

I'm speaking of Norquist, called Steve.

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Dated Apt

Since Norquist is seventy-one,

You'll note that his verse are spun

With threads from the past, 

Unperturbed, unharassed,

By the urge to make up-to-date fun.

 

 

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April 29 - Steve Norquist (The Musical Birthday Series, 6th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for April 29th may be found here: me (2019), me (2020), me (2021), me (2022), and me (2023)

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Steve Norquist (b. 29 April 1954) writes this blog.  He is a musicologist and pianist, and performs obscure, undeservedly forgotten, and just plain odd piano music at his YouTube channel Piano Curiosities with Steve Norquist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Trio of Limericks at Seventy

(1)

If they said that this blog was a chronicle

Of wisdom, informed and canonical,

They would say it in spite

Of the piffle I write,

Unless they were being ironical.

(2)

When the prudent have said to me, “Steve,

There is more that you ought to achieve

Than limericks or worse”

I say, "Quite the reverse

Is what I have come to believe."

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And so it’s my birthday again,

(It’s the Biblical  three score and ten),

But I still waste the day

In a dubious way

Writing frivolous nonsense, Amen.

 

 

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