Parting Words: Cole Porter
Oct 19th, 2008 · Host Jacki Lyden shares some parting words.
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Revisiting Cole Porter's 'Top' *
Dec 30th, 2007 · What does Cole Porter's song, You're the Top have to do with Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the end of Prohibition? Producer Ben Manilla discovers the answer in the final installment of our series, From the National Registry.
Country Singer Porter Wagoner Dies at 80 ****
Oct 29th, 2007 · Celebrated country singer Porter Wagoner dies at 80. He had been hospitalized for lung cancer. Wagoner joined Nashville's Grand Ole Opry in 1957 and 10 years later he hired a 21-year-old Dolly Parton as his duet partner. Wagoner was known as much for his wardrobe as his music.
Willy Porter: Sparkling Folk Goes Grassroots
Dec 19th, 2006 · One of the artists at the forefront of the modern folk-music scene, Willy Porter began his career by selling copies of his debut album out of the trunk of his car in 1990. Since then, Porter has juggled labels and flirted with mainstream success, but his music has remained consistently compelling.
Renee Fleming, Singing Porter's 'So in Love' ****
May 2nd, 2006 · Soprano Renee Fleming delights an audience in Buffalo with a surprise performance of Cole Porter's "So in Love" from the musical Kiss Me Kate. Conductor JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic back her up at Kleinhans Hall.
A Tribute to Artie Shaw
Jan 3rd, 2005 · Bandleader and clarinetist Artie Shaw died Dec. 29 at the age of 94, apparently of natural causes. In the 1930s and '40s, Shaw's band ranked with the Goodman, Dorsey and Miller bands in popularity. But he largely rejected pop tunes and stuck with music by composers like Porter, Gershwin and Berlin. We remember Shaw.
Writer Simon Nye, Reviving 'Pollyanna'
Nov 28th, 2004 · Screenwriter Simon Nye's most recent work is the Pollyanna, showing Sunday night on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre. Nye talks to NPR's Liane Hansen about the challenges -- and "glad things" -- about working with Eleanor H. Porter's 1913 novel.
Pullman Porters and the Rise of the Black Middle Class ****
Jul 14th, 2004 · NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with author Larry Tye and former Pullman Porter Babe Smock about the legacy of the Pullman Company, the black men that served in its rail cars and Tye's new book, Rising From the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class.
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