Some Cole Porter suggestions from the ILAC Centre Music Library…
Take the Otis elevator to the first floor of the Ilac Centre and enter the Central Library. Turn right at the library entrance and walk down to the Music Library where the music library staff will, on request, lure the oft regretful Miss Otis off the shelf, urging her to accept your invitation to repeat her melancholy tale of betrayal.
“Miss Otis Regrets” is a song by Cole Porter from the 1930′s. Cole Porter is reputed to have said that he could write a song about anything even an elevator. The song is written in the blues style and tells the story of a woman who is jailed and hanged having shot her seducer after being jilted and abandoned.
Miss Otis is a polite society lady and the story of her last evening is told by her servant who conveys Miss Otis’s final, polite apologetic words to her friends. “Miss Otis regrets she’s unable to lunch today”. Read more
