Word: portering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will the saloon singers of the next century still be crooning George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Johnny Mercer? Or is a new generation of as-yet-unknown popular songwriters quietly turning out tomorrow's standards today? Perhaps Audra McDonald will answer that question on her next album...
...maybe Gershwin's greatest legacy is his third answer: how to use jazz in songs. To put it another way, What greater musical legacy has America given the world than the songs of Gershwin, Cole Porter and the rest of the gang? What body of our music has been more widely played, admired and memorized around the world than the jazz-flavored songs known as standards? And where did they come from? Listen...
...mine, from which the Brooklyn-born son of immigrants proceeded to extract all kinds of music, including, in one glittering shovelful, not just his famous Rhapsody but also a related song called The Man I Love. This would beget almost instantly a new kind of American song, exemplified by Porter's Night and Day and Richard Rodgers' My Funny Valentine...
Robert Nozick, Porter professor of philosophy, has been named the Pellegrino University Professor...
Helping her in the back line are three All Ivy League Honorable Mention Players, juniors Deane-Kocivar Norbury, senior Jackie Flood and sophomore Shannon Porter...