Ogden Nash and "People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up." Nash, a baseball fan, wrote a poem titled "Line-Up for Yesterday," an alphabetical poem listing baseball immortals. Published in "Sport" magazine in January 1949, the poem pays tribute to the baseball greats and to his own fandom, in alphabetical order. Here is a sampling from his A to Z list: Nash particularly loved Baltimore sports teams. Nash wrote humorous poems for each movement of the Camille Saint-Saëns orchestral suite "The Carnival of the Animals", which are sometimes recited when the work is performed. The original
The Carnival: Choreographer's Ball The Carnival: Choreographer's Ball The Carnival: Choreographer’s Ball show is the longest running dance show in Southern California, United States, and a popular monthly showcase of the top/elite choreographers in the world (video, music, and film). The show is run in Hollywood, with satellite choreographer’s balls in Chicago, New York, Sydney, London, and Tokyo. The show is considered the dance community's ultimate competitive venue for choreographers to perform or display their work. The show was created by Los Angeles choreographers' Carey Ysais and Paulette Azizian in 1998 to give working choreographers and dancers a venue where they could have free