The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film and Television

In commenting on this book, this reviewer cannot better Cole Porter, whose lyrics to Red, Hot and Blue state “Due to the tragic lowness of my brow, all music that is high brow gets me upset. Each time I hear a strain of Stravinsky's I hurry to Minsky's and try to forget. I don't like Schubert's music or Schumann's, I'm one of those humans who only goes in for Berlin and Vincent Youmans; I'm for the guy that eludes Bach sonatas and Chopin preludes…I can't take Sibelius or Delius, but I swear I'd throw my best pal away for Calloway”....