Title:
Selections from Porgy and Bess ; Blue Monday : original version / Gershwin.
Author:
Gershwin, George, 1898-1937, composer.
Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940, librettist, lyricist.
Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983, lyricist.
De Sylva, B. G. (Buddy Gard), 1896-1950, lyricist.
Barnes, Sebronette, 1958- singer.
Blackwell, Harolyn, singer.
Brown, Angela M. (Angela Marie), 1963- singer.
Lister, Marquita, singer.
Walker, Kirk (Tenor), singer.
Young, Thomas, 1962- singer.
Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994, singer.
Baker, Gregg, singer.
Caldwell, William Henry, singer.
Craig, Lawrence, singer.
Kunzel, Erich, conductor.
Based on (work): Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940. Porgy.
Contains (work): Gershwin, George, 1898-1937. Porgy and Bess. Selections.
Contains (work): Gershwin, George, 1898-1937. Blue Monday.
Central State University (Wilberforce, Ohio). Chorus, performer.
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, performer.
Publication Information:
Cleveland, OH : Telarc, [1998]
℗1998
Call Number:
B GERS SPB B34
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Physical Description:
1 audio disc (71 min., 23 sec.) ; 4 3/4 in.
General 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.
Compact disc.
Duration (2nd work): 24:19.
Program notes by Edward Jablonski and Erich Kunzel, synopses, and biographical notes on the performers (15 pages) inserted in container.
Added Title:
Blue Monday.
Contents:
Selections from Porgy and Bess. Act I. Introduction ; Summertime ; A woman is a sometime thing ; Gone, gone, gone ; Overflow ; My man's gone now ; Leavin' for the Promise Lan'. Act II. I got plenty o'nuttin' ; Bess, you is my woman now ; Oh, I can't sit down ; I ain't got no shame ; It ain't necessarily so ; I loves you, Porgy. Act III. Opening scene ; Lonely boy ; Oh, Bess, O where's my Bess ; Oh Lawd, I'm on my way -- Blue Monday.
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