COLE PORTER

I would like to confess............., many times I listened, played and sang songs without paying attention to the composers or the singers. Mostly to non-classical repertoires. In a shorter words, I did not know who the composer of the song, the singer and even badly I did not know the title of the song. BUT I know the song!

"Do you know ....... (title of the song) by.............(the composer/singer)?"
or
"Do you have the score of ......(title of the song)?"
Usually my friends ask me like that. Then I will reply, "Sing the song for me!"
If he / she can sing the song they want to perfectly....., then 90% I know which one they mean. But some of my friends have a really bad pitch (LOL!), they sang the song with their own out of tunes melody.......... !




















My turning point was when I did not know COLE PORTER. So embarrassing!
I have played his songs many times.

One day a friend of mine came visiting me and said, " Have you got a chance watching "DE LOVELY"?

I said, "No......, what is the movie all about? And where is it played?"

He laughed and start telling me the story of the movie, which immediately tackled my mind to get a copy and watch it.

DE LOVELY is a biography movie of COLE PORTER, which is done so nicely!

Before that he lent me a CD Music......., when seeing the title of the songs, I nearly stop breathing. I knew all the songs! But how come, I do not know COLE PORTER (http://www.coleporter.org/).

Ever since then, I put my attention whenever start knowing a new song, I will surf to get the information about the composer, the singer and anything related to it like what I did to my classical reportoires.

I must admit......, by knowing the background of the composer, I have a better understanding of the song and more easily fine tuning my emotion when playing it back.

Here it is, a music score SO IN LOVE, a song by Cole Porter.