© by Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
The hippopotamus
Language: English
Behold the hippopotamus! [ ... ]
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Text Authorship:
- by Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971), "The hippopotamus", appears in I'm a Stranger Here Myself, first published 1938, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Jean Berger, né Arthur Schloßberg (1909 - 2002), "The hippopotamus", published 1973 [ SATB chorus and 2 flutes ], from Who's Who in the Zoo [sung text not yet checked]
- by Timothy Hoekman , "The Hippopotamus", 1995, published 1999 [ counter-tenor or mezzo-soprano and piano ], from The Nash Menagerie, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
This text was added to the website: 2008-06-02
Line count: 7
Word count: 39