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Article: Culture: Porter's progress; Christopher Morley looks at the incomparable songwriting of Cole Porter, whose greatest musical begins a two-week run in Birmingham tonight.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- September 21, 2004
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Byline: Christopher Morley
The sort of scenario that can lead to chairs being thrown around pubs is a discussion on 'what is the world's greatest . . . ?'.
Well, prepare for furniture to be smashed as I declare that the world's greatest song from musical theatre is Night and Day, with its instantly memorable melody, its toe-curling harmonies, its gently pulsating rhythm and its haunting, lovestruck lyrics.
What might be heart-on-sleeve emotionalism is instead shaped and refined by its creator's consummate finesse of style, and that creator, ...