Most people know Cole Porter for 1948′s Tony Award winning Broadway musical “Kiss Me Kate.” Based on William Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew,” this was neither Cole Porter’s first or last work. A very accomplished musician, Cole Porter was born to a wealthy pharmacist and his wife on June 9, 1891, in Peru, Indiana. [...]
Stephen Collins Foster, the “father of American music,” wrote songs in the nineteenth century that live on to this day. He was the forerunner of today’s professional songwriter, though he died in poverty. He expanded the musical tastes of America like no other before him. Born in Pennsylvania, Foster was one of ten children. Though [...]
