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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
I believe that Mendelssohn wrote the music for "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing." So the tradition of Jewish composers of Christian classics extends farther back than I had realized.
Posted by: DL | December 26, 2009 at 12:26 AM