Cole Porter

Recounts the backstage and on-stage antics of two feuding romances during an out-of-town tryout for a musical adaptation of The taming of the shrew.

Kiss Me, Kate

Cole Porter possessed to a singular degree the art of expressing depth through apparent frivolity. The effervescent wit and technical bravura of his songs are matched by their unguarded revelations of feeling. In the words of editor Robert Kimball, “Porter wrote tellingly of the pain and evanescence of emotional relationships. He gently mocked propriety and said that few things were simple or lasting or free from ambiguity.” Of the masters of twentieth-century American songwriting, Porter was one of the few who wrote both music and lyrics, and, even in the absence of his melodies, his words distill an unmistakable mixture of poignancy and wit that marks him as a genius of light verse. Selected from over eight hundred songs, here are Porter’s finest flights of invention, lyrics that are an indelible part of 20th-century culture: “Let’s Do It,” “Love for Sale,” “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “Anything Goes,” “In the Still of the Night,” “I Concentrate on You,” and dozens more. About the American Poets Project Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics.

Cole Porter: Selected Lyrics

(P/V/G Composer Collection). 44 songs, 108 photos, and a show/film index. Song highlights include: All of You * Easy to Love * I Concentrate on You * In the Still of the Night * I've Got You Under My Skin * Well, Did You Evah? * many more. 256 pages.

Cole Porter, a Musical Anthology

Includes: You Do Something to Me * I've Got You Under My Skin * I Get a Kick Out of You * What Is This Thing Called Love? * Begin the Beguine and many more.

The Great Songs of Cole Porter

Lee Snider

Hal Leonard represents the finest composers in contemporary music. In these folios you'll find the songs that set the standards for beautiful music, as well as background text on the composers behind them. Over 50 songs including: Allez-Vous-En, Go Away -- Begin the Beguine -- Easy to Love -- Friendship -- From This Moment On -- In the Still of the Night -- Night and Day -- True Love -- more. Includes show chronology and B&W photos. Arranged for piano, voice and guitar.

A Treasury of Cole Porter

Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter

Feuer and Martin Present Cole Porter's Can-Can

Abe Burrows

Can-can

Red Hot + Blue

Offers a collection containing 50 of Cole Porter's songs for piano and voice with guitar chords. This is THE definitive Porter songbook - a truly magnificent collection containing 50 of Cole Porter's best songs for piano and voice with guitar chords. This is the second in a brand new series entitled The Platinum Collection. All the songs within this book are newly engraved and have been thoroughly researched and edited to provide the best published edition. No other series can claim to be as definitive as Faber Music's new Platinum Collection

The Platinum Collection : 50 Classic Songs for Piano and Voice with Guitar Chords

Cole Porter's musical that incorporates Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew within his own story. This was Porter's 'comeback' musical and was indeed his most successful. Titles: Always True to You in My Fashion * Another Op'nin', Another Show * Bianca * Brush Up Your Shakespeare * I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple * I Hate Men * I Sing of Love * I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua * Overture--Kiss Me, Kate * So in Love * Tom, Dick, or Harry * Too Darn Hot * We Open in Venice * Were Thine That Special Face * Where Is the Life That Late I Led? * Why Can't You Behave? * Wunderbar.

Vocal Score

David Armstrong

Mark Waldrop

Bruce Coyle

The spotlight is on the timelessness of Cole Porter classics, presented here with wonderfully fresh arrangements and a contemporary twist. Over fifty of his songs are woven into an entertainment that feels as much like a book musical as a revue. By turns wry, irreverent, romantic, touching and hilarious, this is a post modern Cole Porter evening unlike any other.

A Cole Porter Celebration

Hot 'n Cole

This romantic musical comedy is set in Paris in 1929. Filled with delightful, witty Cole Porter songs, the story takes place one summer evening in Baron Rommer's elegant penthouse suite at the Hotel Ritz. The baron and his butler switch identities so that the butler can pursue a woman he believes is a lady of a much higher class. It transpires that she is actually a maid in the service of Mme. Baltin, a high society figure who has captured the baron's heart. Her jealous husband and a Baker like actress headlining at the Follies Bergere round out the cast of this door slamming farce with wonderful songs and dancing.

Cole Porter's You Never Know

Take seven of Cole Porter's classic songs, add Mark Hayes' stunning and unpredictable arrangements, and it all adds up to this winning collection. Available in Medium High and Medium Low editions, and featuring Mark Hayes at the piano on the accompaniment CD. Songs include: Anything Goes * Blow, Gabriel, Blow * I Love Paris * Just One of Those Things * Night and Day * True Love * You're the Top.

Contemporary Settings of Seven Classic Songs

Seven by Porter

8 vocal selections from the 1953 Porter musical, including: Allez-Vous-En, Go Away • C'est Magnifique • Can Can • Come Along with Me • I Love Paris • It's All Right with Me • Live and Let Live • Montmartre.

Can-Can

Michael Whaley

This famous "lost" musical, a hit in London in the thirties and later a triumph for Gertrude Lawrence and Elizabeth Welch, was recently restaged to bravos in London. Its whimsical story follows innocent Evangeline Edwards as she bids farewell to a Swiss finishing school and sets off across Europe and looking for love and adventure. She gets into one scrape after another and is rescued by a series of unsuitable men (a French producer, Russian musician, Austrian nudist, Italian count, Greek magnate, Turkish Pasha and a eunuch all played by the same actor).

Nymph Errant

Based on Holiday by Philip Barry

Happy New Year

The first comprehensive collection of the letters of one of the most successful American songwriters of the twentieth century From Anything Goes to Kiss Me, Kate, Cole Porter left a lasting legacy of iconic songs including "You're the Top," "Love For Sale," and "Night and Day." Yet, alongside his professional success, Porter led an eclectic personal life which featured exuberant parties, scandalous affairs, and chronic health problems. This extensive collection of letters (most of which are published here for the first time) dates from the first decade of the twentieth century to the early 1960s and features correspondence with stars such as Irving Berlin, Ethel Merman, and Orson Welles, as well as his friends and lovers. Cliff Eisen and Dominic McHugh complement these letters with lively commentaries that draw together the loose threads of Porter’s life and highlight the distinctions between Porter’s public and private existence. This book reveals surprising insights into his attitudes toward Hollywood and Broadway, and toward money, love, and dazzling success.

The Letters of Cole Porter

inch....this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken inch. (Oliver James,Contact Magazine) A novel and comprehensive approach to transferring from the C to F instrument. 430 music examples include folk and national songs (some in two parts), country dance tunes and excerpts from the standard treble repertoire of•Bach, Barsanti, Corelli, Handel, Telemann, etc. An outstanding feature of the book has proved to be Brian Bonsor's brilliantly simple but highly effective practice circles and recognition squares designed to give, in only a few minutes, concentrated practice on the more usual leaps to and from each new note and instant recognition of random notes. Quickly emulating the outstanding success of the descant tutors, these books are very popular even with those who normally use tutors other than the Enjoy the Recorder series.

This hit Broadway musical features great Cole Porter songs such as: I Love Paris * I Love You, Samantha * It's All Right with Me * Let's Misbehave * Little One * Ridin' High * True Love * Well, Did You Evah? * Who Wants to Be a Millionaire * You're Sensational. The folio includes archive photographs from the original source movie The Philadelphia Story starring Katherine Hepburn, as well as the remake movie High Society starring Grace Kelly.

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