PORTERIANA

Speranza

Nonetheless, wherever Porter was, or whatever he was supposed to be doing, he was always busily composing songs.

These songs, among them, "Two little babes in the wood", "Let's do it", and "What is this thing called love?", were certainly NOT the product of an amateur or a dabbler.

In MELODY and in LYRICS, his work at the time showed a PROFESSIONALISM made all the more impressive by his absence from Broadway.

For though he was aware of what the Gershwin brothers and Rodgers and Hart were accomplishing, he was not directly under the influence of the rising new generation of song-writers in the Twenties.

Completely independent and far from the Broadway scene,  Porter was creating his OWN DISTINCTIVE STYLE, one that would later characterise all his contributions to the musical theatre.