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Porgy and Bess

Title: Porgy and Bess [sound recording].
Author: Gershwin, George, 1898-1937.
Publication: [New York] : RCA Camden, [1959]

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Description

1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono.; 12 in.

Uniform Title

Porgy and Bess. Selections

Alternative Title

Porgy and Bess.

Subject

Operas > Excerpts

Note

Opera excerpts.
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward.
Program notes by Stanley Green on container.

Performer (note)

Helen Jepson, soprano; Lawrence Tibbett, baritone; chorus and orchestra; Alexander Smallens and Nathaniel Shilkret, conductors.

Event (note)

Recorded Oct. 1935, in Liederkranz Hall, New York.

Contents

Scene. Summertime and Crap game ; A woman is a sometime thing -- My man's gone now -- I got plenty o' nuttin' -- The buzzard song -- Bess, you is my woman now -- It ain't necessarily so -- Where is my Bess? -- Summertime.

Call Number

*LZR 14008

OCLC

4898129

Author

Gershwin, George, 1898-1937.

Title

Porgy and Bess [sound recording].

Imprint

[New York] : RCA Camden, [1959]

Performer

Helen Jepson, soprano; Lawrence Tibbett, baritone; chorus and orchestra; Alexander Smallens and Nathaniel Shilkret, conductors.

Event

Recorded Oct. 1935, in Liederkranz Hall, New York.

Added Author

Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983. Librettist

Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940. Librettist

Jepson, Helen, 1904-1997. Performer

Tibbett, Lawrence, 1896-1960. Performer

Smallens, Alexander, 1889-1972. Conductor

Shilkret, Nathaniel, 1889-1982. Conductor

Publisher No.

CAL 500 RCA Camden

Research Call Number

*LZR 14008 Program notes on container.

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