What: George Gershwin's 'Porgy and Bess,' story by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, lyrics by the Heywards and Ira Gershwin, produced by Opera Colorado Starring: Priscilla Baskerville, Arthur Woodley, ...

"Summertime," composed by George Gershwin for Porgy and Bess, has become one of the most recorded songs in history, with over 25,000 versions. This video explores its origins, from African-American ...

It was not until the revival, after composer George Gershwin’s death, that Porgy and Bess came into its own. The melodrama of a 1905 Charleston waterfront slum, which might otherwise have been ...

and his masterpieces include such well-known compositions as the folk opera "Porgy and Bess," "Rhapsody in Blue" and "An American in Paris." Though Gershwin died at the early age of 37 ...

In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with ... her shelter is the crippled Porgy. Their relationship is ...

It was 5° above zero when the 85 members of the Porgy and Bess company got to ... a trip to the Soviet Union for the 20-year-old George Gershwin-DuBose Heyward folk opera about poor Negroes ...

George Gershwin has written 48 shows including Half-Past Eight (Composer), La, La, Lucille (Composer), La-La-Lucille! (Composer), Morris Gest's "Midnight Whirl" (Composer), George White's Scandals ...

And who could keep a straight face listening to the strutting clarinet solo at the beginning of George Gershwin ... storm scene from Gershwin’s 1935 opera “Porgy and Bess.” ...