I sizzle to see you
John Lahr: Cole Porter’s secret songs, 21 November 2019
The Letters of Cole Porter
edited by Cliff Eisen and Dominic McHugh.
Yale, 672 pp., £25, October 2019,978 0 300 21927 2 Show More
edited by Cliff Eisen and Dominic McHugh.
Yale, 672 pp., £25, October 2019,
“... of perfect equipoise.Porter (1891-1964) was the cosseted surviving child of three born to Kate and Sam Porter, a pharmacist in Peru, Indiana. He inherited his aptitude for music from his father, a good pianist with an attractive tenor voice. ‘I suppose he started me writing lyrics,’ Porter said – he wrote his first song when he was ten. He ... ”
