Selections from Porgy and Bess. Act I. Introduction (0:58) ; Summertime (2:33) ; A woman is a sometime thing (1:56) ; Gone, gone, gone (2:50) ; Overflow (1:31) ; My man's gone now (4:03) ; Leavin' for the Promise Lan' (2:13). Act II. I got plenty o'nuttin' (2:39) ; Bess, you is my woman now (5:34) ; Oh, I can't sit down (1:41) ; I ain't got no shame (0:43) ; It ain't necessarily so (3:45) ; I loves you, Porgy (3:20). Act III. Opening scene (7:11) ; Lonely boy (1:22) ; Oh, Bess, O where's my Bess (2:39) ; Oh Lawd, I'm on my way (1:47) -- Blue Monday (24:20).
Note
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 manuscripts in the Library of Congress by Erich Kunzel.
Credits (note)
Recording producer, Robert Woods.
Title
Selections from Porgy and Bess ; Blue Monday : original version / Gershwin.
Publisher
Cleveland, OH : Telarc, [1998]
Copyright date
℗1998
Playing time
011123
Type of content
performed music
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Performer
Performed by 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.
Credits
Recording producer, Robert Woods.
Event
Recorded 1993 February 28 and 1997 May 18, 20, 21 Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio.