Lieberson Madrigal — III. Fugue

Lennie Bernstein wants to do Boulez
No, no, Stockhausen too?
No, no, Lennie, no you can't
Why must you be so damn avant?
Yes, that's what I said: Stockhausen too
And just to make the matter worse
Old Igor now sets Robert's verse
What a silly thing to do!
How very silly can you get?
I'm so sick of Robert's verse
But Igor now sets
Robert's most medieval verse
Poor young Bobby's verse
Well, it's true that Isaac Stern's
New disc to Stephen Foster turns
But this barely compensates
For George and Rudi's latest dates
Oh, we're all uncommercial here
Our sales get worse from year to year
From year to year our sales get worse
And that's the sober message of our verse: