An edition of Porgy and Bess
(1953)
Porgy and Bess
Vocal Score
by George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin
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Porgy and Bess is an opera based on DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy and subsequent play of the same title, which he co-wrote with his wife Dorothy Heyward. All three works deal with African-American life in the fictitious Catfish Row (based on the area of Cabbage Row) in Charleston, South Carolina, in the early 1920s. Originally conceived by George Gershwin as an "American folk opera", Porgy and Bess premiered in New York in the fall of 1935 and featured an entire cast of classically trained African-American singers -- a daring artistic choice at the time. - Wikipedia.
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Porgy and Bess: Vocal Score
July 1999, Alfred Publishing Company
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in English
0769200567 9780769200569
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Songs include:
Jasbo Brown Blues
Summertime
A Woman Is a Sometime Thing
Here Come de Honey Man
They Pass by Singin'
Oh Little Stars
Gone, Gone, Gone
Overflow
My Man's Gone Now
Leavin' for the Promise' Lan'
It Take a Long Pull to Get There
I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
Buzzard Song
Bess, You Is My Woman
Oh, I Can't Sit Down
I Ain't Got No Shame
It Ain't Necessarily So
What You Want Wid Bess?
Oh, Doctor Jesus
Strawberry Woman
Crab Man
I Loves You, Porgy
Oh, Hev'nly Father
Oh, de Lawd Shake de Heavens
Oh, Dere's Somebody Knockin' at de Do'
A Red Headed Woman
Clara, Clara
There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York
Good Mornin', Sistuh!
Oh, Bess, Oh Where's My Bess
Oh Lawd
I'm on My Way
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