Master songsmith Cole Porter is no longer around to play command performances or record duets with pop stars. But the music lives on.

Yesterday Susan Forscher Weiss, an editor of A Cole Porter Companion (along with Don M. Randel and Matthew Shaftel) visited the Baltimore radio program Midday to discuss Porter’s life and peerless career. A pair of local musicians also sat in to play a selection of Porter songs, and they will perform again tonight at The Ivy Bookshop as part of Forscher Weiss’s discussion of the book. The reading and music starts at 7 p.m.