June 9 - Cole Porter (The Musical Birthday Series, 5th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for June 9th are found here: Cole Porter (2019), Fred Waring (2020), Charles Wuorinen; Carl Nielsen (2021), and Otto Nicolai (2022)

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Cole Porter (9 June 1891 – 15 October 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wunderbar

Cole Porter’s poetic felicity

Was a marvel of facile plasticity,

And unlike his peers

His verve never veers

Towards the canyon of gauche eccentricity.

 

 

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