His mischievousness would remain most of his life. While on board, Cole headed straight toward the piano, wet suit and all, and pounded away on the keys, keeping time with the rhythm of the engine, until the ship captain chased him away and Cole made his escape somersaulting into the clear lake waters beyond the captain’s reach. During summers on Lake Maxinkuckee, he and his friends would climb aboard the passing steamship in their bathing suits and dive off the back before it moved on.
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At the age of eight, Cole was kicked out of the local movie theater for playing comical music on the house piano during a sad part in a film. He showed early promise as a violinist and pianist and began composing songs as young as ten, although he was a mischievous child. Cole’s, reach dominated most aspects of Porter’s early life, even giving the boy the maternal family surname as his first, lest he be somehow denied the privilege of being a Cole. Personally, he was the toast of town even in a wheelchair, having suffered a crippling riding accident that would eventually cost him his right leg or in shadow, his homosexuality not proper upper-set cocktail conversation.Ĭole Porter was born into the privilege and constraints of middle-western wealth in Peru, Indiana in 1891. Harmonically, it was the signature of his sound. The strange change from major to minor runs throughout Cole Porter’s life and work.
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