Cole Porter - note on files


A restored version of the 1930 musical THE NEW YORKERS with
music/lyrics by Cole Porter - recently performed in Chicago. It was 
thought lost but several versions of the script were recently 
discovered and a polished version has been pieced together.

PORBOK

PORREF

PORCMP

PORDIS

PORDSC

PORHTS

PORNSP

PORARL

PORUPB

PORWRI



     This Bibliography is not complete.  There are a number of periodicals,

for example, which could not be investigated for listing.  Variety has

articles that were not found, as does Stereo Review, Music and Artists,

Music News, The Wall Street Journal, High Fidelity, Saturday Review, and

Time. Citings of these articles were either from various volumes of the

Music Index, or from the computer listing in the Library of Wake Forest

University.  In addition to periodicals, there are, in all probability,

more general resources available than are listed here.  The sources for the

the various files associated with Cole Porter are as follows:



Jackson Library at the University of North Carolina, Greebsboro.

The Library of Wake Forest University.

The Cole Porter Collection of the Library of Congress.

The Music Index - Volumes 17-30.

Siebert, Lynn Laitman. Cole Porter: An Analysis of Five Musical Comedies and A Thematic Catalogue of the Complete Works.

   Ph.D. thesis, The City University of New York, 1975.

The Arts and Humanities Index. Philadelphia: Institute for Scientific Information,Inc., 1988.

Kimball, Robert, ed.  Cole.  With a Biographical Essay by Brendan Gill. New York:

   Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. (this also contains a historical discography).

Schwartz, Charles.  Cole Porter: a Biography.  New York: The Dial Press, 1977.

The Music Library of the North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC.

Crapo, Paul, managing ed. Schwann. Chatsworth, CA:  ABC Consumer Magazines, Inc., Winter 1990.  Hart, Jane

   Poirier, ed..

Schwann Spectrum.  Chatsworth, CA:  ABC Consumer Magazines, Inc., 1990.



A listing of hit songs from Cole Porter productions are in PORHTS



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