The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess / [music by George Gershwin ; lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin].

Author/creator Gershwin, George composer.
Format Audio (CD)
Publication InfoBronxville, NY : PS Classics, ℗2012.
Description2 audio discs (96 min., 14 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Subjects

Other author/creatorHeyward, DuBose, 1885-1940 librettist, lyricist.
Other author/creatorHeyward, Dorothy, 1890-1961 librettist.
Other author/creatorGershwin, Ira, 1896-1983 lyricist.
Other author/creatorParks, Suzan-Lori adapter.
Other author/creatorMurray, Diedre, adapter.
Other author/creatorBrohn, William D. arranger of music.
Other author/creatorJahnke, Christopher arranger of music.
Other author/creatorMcDonald, Audra performer.
Other author/creatorLewis, Norm, 1963- performer.
Other author/creatorGrier, David Alan, 1956 June 30- performer.
Other author/creatorKitsopoulos, Constantine, conductor.
Uniform titlePorgy and Bess
Portion of title Porgy and Bess
SeriesTomtheJazzman Collection
TomtheJazzman Collection. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Overture (2:23) -- Summertime (2:40) -- Roll them bones (3:38) -- A woman is a sometime thing (2:16) -- Porgy's entrance (3:12) -- Crap game (1:37) -- The killing of Robbins (4:22) -- Gone, gone, gone (3:34) -- My man's gone now (4:05) -- Leaving for the promised land (3:32) -- It takes a long pull to get there (2:12) -- I got plenty of nothing (2:44) -- I hates your strutting style (2:31) -- "Picnics is all right" (2:16) -- Bess, you is my woman now (5:00) -- Oh, I can't sit down (2:35) -- It ain't necessarily so (3:14) -- What you want with Bess? (6:38) -- Oh, Doctor Jesus (2:49) -- Street cries (3:38) -- "I was powerful sick" (2:16) -- I loves you, Porgy (3:11) -- The storm approaches (2:20) -- Oh, the Lord shake the heaven (4:02) -- A red headed woman (2:00) -- Oh, Doctor Jesus : (reprise) (1:23) -- Clara, don't you be downhearted (2:05) -- Summertime : (reprise) (2:36) -- The death of Crown (1:31) -- There's a boat that's leaving soon for New York (2:55) -- Bess, oh where's my Bess? (4:07) -- Oh Lord, I'm on my way (2:38).
Abstract Revered for its legendary score by George Gershwin, Dubose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin, Porgy and Bess has been reimagined and reinvigorated for the modern stage by a team that includes Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, musical adapter Diedre L. Murray and director Diane Paulus. It's the New Broadway Cast Recording of one of the most beloved works of the American musical theatre.
General noteOpera.
General note"New Broadway cast recording"--Container spine.
General noteLibretto by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward ; musical book adapted by Suzan-Lori Parks ; musical score adapted by Diedre L. Murray ; orchestrations by William David Brohn and Christopher Jahnke.
General noteCompact discs.
General noteProgram notes by Patrick Pacheco, synopsis, and libretto ([40] p. : ports.) inserted in container.
Performer Audra McDonald (Bess) ; Norm Lewis (Porgy) ; David Alan Grier (Sporting Life) ; Nikki Renée Daniels, Joshua Henry, NaTasha Yvette Williams, J.D. Webster, Bryonha Marie Parham, Nathaniel Stampley, Phillip Boykin, Christopher Innvar, Joseph Dellger, Andrea Jones-Sojola, Phumzile Sojola, Cedric Neal, Roosevelt André Credit, Trevon Davis, Wilkie Ferguson III, Allison Blackwell, Heather Hill, Alicia Hall Moran, Lisa Nicole Wilkerson, supporting soloists ; orchestra ; Constantine Kitsopoulos, conductor.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Mar. 26-27, 2012, MSR Studios, New York, NY.
ISBN9786314662592 (CD)
ISBN6314662591 (CD)
Standard identifier# 00803607120627
UPC 803607120627
Publisher numberPS-1206 PS Classics

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