Porgy and Bess remains George Gershwin’s magnum opus, with an unforgettable score that includes songs (“Summertime,” “It Ain’t Necessarily So”) later recorded by popular musicians from Billie Holiday ...

GIDDENS: Every episode we unpack an aria so you can see what’s inside. Today, it's a song you’ve probably heard a hundred times in all different styles: “Summertime” from the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess ...

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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia Orchestra is kicking off the month of March with George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, set in the slums of 1930's Charleston, South Carolina. "Gershwin himself went ...

The Buzzard Song; Bess, You Is My Woman Now; Gone; Gone, Gone, Gone; Summertime; Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess; Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus); Fisherman, Strawberry and Devil Crab; My Man's Gone Now; It ...

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Many people know “Porgy and Bess” as the grand George Gershwin opera which debuted on Broadway in 1935, but director Diane Paulus has since re-invented the popular tale of Southern black life as ...

2004 appears to be the year for reevaluation of Miles Davis classics. First came g.org's A New Kind of Blue, applying a more modern bent to the iconic Kind of Blue. Now the Chicago Jazz Orchestra, ...

NEW YORK -- In the end, "Porgy and Bess" didn't need anyone coming to its rescue after all. A gorgeous version of the American stage classic opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Thursday for the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF/AP) - Nathaniel Stampley ached to make the role of Porgy his own in the celebrated 2012 Broadway revival of "Porgy and Bess." Instead, he kept dying. Stampley was an understudy ...

The 80-year-old artist's work is on view at his inaugural show with his debut with Venus Over Manhattan. Claude Lawrence, Summertime (2022). Courtesy the artist and Venus Over Manhattan, New York.

The Gershwin and Heyward estates enlisted Tony-winning Hair and Pippin director Diane Paulus to help bring new context to Porgy and Bess for contemporary audiences, whittling the American folk opera ...