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George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.
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- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Gershwin, George, 1898-1937, composer.
- Series:
- Naxos Music Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Operas.
- Streaming audio.
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 audio file)
- Other Title:
- Porgy and Bess.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : RCA Red Seal, [1984?]
- System Details:
- digital
- audio file
- Contents:
- Introduction ; Jasbo Brown blues (5:07)
- Summertime (2:26)
- Oh, nobody knows when de Lord is gonna call (6:15)
- A woman is a sometime thing (2:12)
- Here come de honey man (4:58)
- Here comes Big Boy (6:57)
- Oh, little stars, little stars (4:12)
- Wake up an' hit it out (4:36)
- Gone, gone, gone (3:32)
- Overflow (2:32)
- Well, well, well, a saucer-burying setup (3:35)
- My man's gone now (4:44)
- How's de saucer stan' now, my sister? (2:06)
- Leavin' for the Promise' Lan' (4:33).
- It takes a long pull to get there (3:19)
- Mus' be you mens forgot about de picnic (0:39)
- I got plenty o' nuttin' (2:47)
- Lissen there, what I tells you (1:12)
- I hates yo' struttin' style (1:08)
- Mornin', Lawyer (4:20)
- Dey's a Buckra comin' (2:23)
- The buzzard song (3:21)
- Lo, Bess, goin' to the picnic? (3:20)
- Bess, you is my woman (6:01)
- Oh, I can't sit down (1:37)
- What's de matter wid you, sister? (2:34)
- I ain't got no shame (2:42)
- It ain't necessarily so (3:11)
- Shame on all you sinners (2:18)
- Crown (4:07)
- What you want wid Bess? (2:58)
- Lemme go, hear dat boat (2:30)
- Honey, dat's all de breakfast I got time for (2:30)
- Take yo' hands off me, I say (2:32)
- Oh, doctor Jesus (2:18)
- Strawberry woman ; Honey man ; Crab man (3:11)
- Now de time, oh, Gawd (3:26)
- I loves you, Porgy (3:45).
- Why you been out on that wharf so long, Clara? (2:24)
- Oh, Doctor Jesus ; Summertime (reprise) (4:48)
- What make you so still, Bess ; Oh, dere's somebody knockin' (1:53)
- You is a nice parcel of Christians (4:17)
- A read-headed woman (1:39)
- Jake's boat in de river (3:00)
- Clara, Clara (3:47)
- You low-lived skunk (1:58)
- Summertime (reprise) ; Death of Crown (4:26)
- Wait for us at the corner, Al (4:08)
- What is your name (3:46)
- Oh, Gawd, They goin' make him look on Crown's face (1:55)
- There's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York (4:08)
- Catfish Row interlude (3:22)
- Good mornin', sistuh! Good mornin', brudder! (2:21)
- It's Porgy comin' home (6:18)
- Oh, Bess, where's my Bess (2:28)
- Bess is gone (1:49)
- Oh, lawd, I'm on my way (1:38).
- Participant:
- Clamma Dale, Wilma Shakesnider, Betty Lane, sopranos ; Carol Brice, contralto ; Larry Marshall, tenor ; Donnie Ray Albert, Andrew Smith, Alexander B. Smalls, baritones ; supporting soloists ; chorus and orchestra of the Houston Grand Opera ; John DeMain, conductor.
- Notes:
- Opera in 3 acts.
- Recorded 1976 November 22-24 RCA's Studio A.
- Libretto by DuBose Heyward ; lyrics by Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward ; founded on the play Porgy by Dorothy and DuBose Heyward.
- Hard copy version record.
- Contains:
- Container of: Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940. Porgy.
- Other Format:
- Source record: Gershwin, George, 1898-1937. Porgy and Bess.
- OCLC:
- 959923798
- Publisher Number:
- USBC17600294
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- 888880792792 RCA Records
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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