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Table of Contents:

• Selections from Porgy and Bess. Act I. Introduction (:58) ; Summertime (2:33) ; A woman is a sometime thing (1:57) ; Gone, gone, gone (2:50) ; Overflow (1:30) ; My man's gone now (4:03) ; Leavin' for the Promise Lan' (2:14)
• Act II. I got plenty o'nuttin' (2:39) ; Bess, you is my woman now (5:34) ; Oh, I can't sit down (1:40) ; I ain't got no shame (:43) ; It ain't necessarily so (3:47) ; I loves you, Porgy (3:18)
• Act III. Opening scene (world premiere recording with newly discovered dialogue) (7:11) ; Lonely boy (world premiere recording orchestrated by Steven Reineke) (1:21) ; Oh, Bess, O where's my Bess (2:40) ; Oh Lawd, I'm on my way (1:40)
• Blue Monday (24:19).

Author/Creator:

Gershwin, George, 1898-1937 , composer

Contributors:

Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940 , librettist, lyricist

Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983 , lyricist

De Sylva, B. G. (Buddy Gard), 1896-1950 , lyricist

Barnes, Sebronette, 1958- , performer

Blackwell, Harolyn , performer

Brown, Angela M. (Angela Marie), 1963- , performer

Lister, Marquita , performer

Walker, Kirk (Tenor) , performer

Young, Thomas, 1962- , performer

Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994 , performer

Baker, Gregg , performer

Caldwell, William Henry , performer

Craig, Lawrence , performer

Kunzel, Erich , conductor

Central State University (Wilberforce, Ohio) > Chorus , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Cincinnati Pops Orchestra , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Sung in English.

Main Work:

Porgy and Bess [by Gershwin, G.] (Selections)

Included Works:

Opera adaptation of: Porgy [by Heyward, D.]

Blue Monday [by Gershwin, G.]

Subjects:

Operas — Excerpts

Operas

Genres:

Operas

Excerpts

Performers:

Sebronette Barnes (1st work), Harolyn Blackwell (1st work), Angela Brown (1st work), Marquita Lister, sopranos ; Kirk Walker (2nd work), Thomas Young (2nd work), Cab Calloway (1st work), tenors ; Gregg Baker, William Henry Caldwell (2nd work), Lawrence Craig (2nd work), baritones ; Central State University Chorus ; Cincinnati Pops Orchestra ; Erich Kunzel, conductor.

Performance Medium:

10 performers and 2 ensembles: soprano voice (4); tenor voice (3); baritone voice (3); chorus; orchestra

General Notes:

Opera excerpts (1st work) and an "opera à la Afro-American" (2nd work).
Libretto by DuBose Heyward, based on his novel Porgy; lyrics by Heyward and Ira Gershwin (1st work); B.G. De Sylva, lyrics (2nd work).
Contains the opening scene and duet Lonely boy for Act 3 of Porgy and Bess, cut from the original; and a new version of Blue Monday. Both works reconstructed and edited from Gershwin's mss. in the Library of Congress by Erich Kunzel.
Description based on: Online resource; title from resource description page (viewed July 22, 2019).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file (72 min.))

Audio Characteristics:

digital

Digital Characteristics:

audio file

Call Numbers:

Online Audio

OCLC Numbers:

1120067145

Other Control Numbers:

2129744 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP2129744/clmu