proper toons
Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Tue, 27 Jul 1999 19:24:25 +0100
When Thor describes to Cole Porter as almost
a God, I'm suddenly suffused with a warm glow
of solidarity. I always *knew* there was a sound
discrimination trying to get out from behind from
that forbidding exterior.
But, Thor, what are we to make of these other
tin ears who seem to think American popular music
began sometime around the mid 60s? To my mind
the contribution to human art made by Jewish American
composers of this century stand up there right alongside
the one donated by the Wops of Renaissance Florence.
McCartney certainly wrote a few sweet things &
a couple of Dylan's ditties tend to snag in the memory.
But what can compare with the infinite subtlety,
the grown-up wit, the simple, heart stopping beauty
of Kern, Youmanns, Porter, Gershwin, Rogers ...?
Scottie B.