Selections from Porgy and Bess ; Blue Monday original version / Gershwin.

Author/creator Gershwin, George composer.
Format Audio (Streaming)
PublicationCleveland, OH : Telarc, 1998.
Description1 online resource (72 minutes)
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?CLMU;2129744
Subjects

Other author/creatorHeyward, DuBose, 1885-1940 librettist, lyricist.
Other author/creatorGershwin, Ira, 1896-1983 lyricist.
Other author/creatorDe Sylva, B. G. (Buddy Gard), 1896-1950 lyricist.
Other author/creatorBarnes, Sebronette, 1958- performer.
Other author/creatorBlackwell, Harolyn performer.
Other author/creatorBrown, Angela M. (Angela Marie), 1963- performer.
Other author/creatorLister, Marquita, performer.
Other author/creatorWalker, Kirk (Tenor), performer.
Other author/creatorYoung, Thomas, 1962- performer.
Other author/creatorCalloway, Cab, 1907-1994 performer.
Other author/creatorBaker, Gregg performer.
Other author/creatorCaldwell, William Henry, performer.
Other author/creatorCraig, Lawrence, performer.
Other author/creatorKunzel, Erich, conductor.
Included WorkOpera adaptation of (work): Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940. Porgy.
Included WorkContainer of (work): Gershwin, George, 1898-1937. Blue Monday.
Other author/creatorCentral State University (Wilberforce, Ohio). Chorus, performer.
Other author/creatorCincinnati Pops Orchestra, performer.
Uniform titlePorgy and Bess. Selections
Contents Selections from Porgy and Bess. Act I. Introduction (:58) ; Summertime (2:33) ; A woman is a sometime thing (1:57) ; Gone, gone, gone (2:50) ; Overflow (1:30) ; My man's gone now (4:03) ; Leavin' for the Promise Lan' (2:14) -- Act II. I got plenty o'nuttin' (2:39) ; Bess, you is my woman now (5:34) ; Oh, I can't sit down (1:40) ; I ain't got no shame (:43) ; It ain't necessarily so (3:47) ; I loves you, Porgy (3:18) -- Act III. Opening scene (world premiere recording with newly discovered dialogue) (7:11) ; Lonely boy (world premiere recording orchestrated by Steven Reineke) (1:21) ; Oh, Bess, O where's my Bess (2:40) ; Oh Lawd, I'm on my way (1:40) -- Blue Monday (24:19).
General noteStreaming audio files.
General noteTitle from resource description page (viewed July 22, 2019).
General noteOpera excerpts (1st work) and an "opera à la Afro-American" (2nd work).
General noteLibretto by DuBose Heyward, based on his novel Porgy; lyrics by Heyward and Ira Gershwin (1st work); B.G. De Sylva, lyrics (2nd work).
General noteContains 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 mss. in the Library of Congress by Erich Kunzel.
Performer 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.
LanguageSung in English.
Issued in other formOriginal cat. no.: CD-80434
Genre/formOperas.
Genre/formExcerpts.

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