The life and times of Porgy and Bess : the story of an American classic / by Alpert, Hollis, 1916-2007

Subjects: “…Gershwin, George, 1898-1937. Porgy and Bess.…”

Great musicals of the American theatre /

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The Cambridge companion to Gershwin /

Table of Contents: “…Exploring new worlds : An American in Paris, Cuban overture and Porgy and Bess /…”

George Gershwin / by Starr, Larry

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Ten great musicals of the American theatre. by Richards, Stanley, 1918-

The George Gershwin reader /

Table of Contents: “…Portraits of the artist -- The growing limelight (1919-1924) -- Fame and fortune (1924-1930) -- Maturity (1930-1935) -- Porgy and Bess -- Last years : Hollywood (1936-1937) -- Obituaries and eulogies -- As time passes.…”

100 great operas and their stories / by Simon, Henry W. 1901-1970

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Stars for freedom : Hollywood, Black celebrities, and the civil rights movement / by Raymond, Emilie, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Cleaning up Catfish Row: Black celebrity and the making of Porgy and Bess -- Sammy Davis, Jr.: daring, deferential, and "money" -- Harry Belafonte and the northern liberal network -- The arts group and the March on Washington -- Dick Gregory and celebrity grassroots activism -- Stars for Selma -- Celebrities and Black power.…”

On the performance front : US theatre and internationalism / by Canning, Charlotte, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…ITI : tomorrow's theatre today -- 6. Onstage III : Porgy and Bess, 1952-1956 -- Conclusion.…”

The Gershwin style : new looks at the music of George Gershwin /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Wayne Schneider -- Towards a new reading of Gershwin / Charles Hamm -- "Rotating" Porgy and Bess / Wayne D. Shirley -- Gershwin's operetta overtures : medley or composition? …”

Sing for your supper : the Broadway musical in the 1930s / by Mordden, Ethan, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…A lady needs a change : the state of the art -- Carry on, keep smiling : musical comedy I -- We're off to Feathermore : Mymph errant, Anything goes, and Jubilee -- Harlem on my mind : the black shows and Porgy and Bess -- Leave it to Katarina : operetta begins its forty-year death scene -- Fun to be fooled : revue -- A song with social significance : politics -- It's better with a union man : the leftist revue -- Life's a dance : the choreography of the 1930s -- I got rhythm : the music of the 1930s -- All in fun : musical comedy II.…”

Letter to my daughter / by Angelou, Maya

Table of Contents: “…Home -- Philanthropy -- Revelations -- Giving birth -- Accident, coincident, or answered prayer -- To tell the truth -- Vulgarity -- Violence -- Mother's long view -- Morocco -- Porgy and Bess -- Bob & Decca -- Celia Cruz -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Senegal -- The eternal silver screen -- In self-defense -- Mrs. …”

A season of opera : from Orpheus to Ariadne / by Lee, M. Owen, 1930-

Table of Contents: “…: Lucia di Lammermoor -- Elemental, furious, wholly true : Il trovatore -- The requisite miracle : La traviata -- The whole checkered play of life : La forza del destino -- Melt Egypt into Nile : Aida -- A figure as old as comedy : Falstaff -- The exasperated eagle and the stoic saint : Les troyens -- The sins of Wagner's youth : Rienzi -- Long day's journey into night : Tristan und Isolde -- The making of a musical legend : Palestrina -- The moon is like the moon : Salome -- Genius and morbidezza : Manon Lescaut -- Mists, sails, sounds, and impressions : Pelléas et Mélisande -- It is your turn to speak : Dialogues des Carmélites -- An opera made of songs : Porgy and Bess -- The music wrote itself : Oklahoma! -- Hurry up please its [sic] time.…”

Dancing in the dark : a cultural history of the Great Depression / by Dickstein, Morris

Table of Contents: “…The populist turn : Copland and the popular front ; Who cares? : the world of Porgy and Bess ; The People vs. Frank Capra : populism against itself ; Shakespeare in overalls : an American troubadour ; Gender trouble : exposing the intellectuals ; Conclusion : the work of culture in Depression America.…”

Blackness in opera /

Table of Contents: “…Bryan -- New paradigms in William Grant Still's Blue steel / Gayle Murchison -- Performers in Catfish Row: Porgy and Bess as collaboration / Gwynne Kuhner Brown -- Searching for "authenticity" in Paul Bowles's Denmark Vesey / Melissa J. de Graaf -- The politics of color in Oscar Hammerstein's Carmen Jones / Melinda Boyd -- Performing race in Ernst Krenek's Jonny spielt auf / Jonathan O. …”

Singers' edition, operatic arias : lyric soprano, light lyric soprano = soprano leggiero-lirico, soprano leger, Koloratursoubrette /

Table of Contents: “…My father! / Handel -- Porgy and Bess. Summertime / Gershwin -- Street Scene. …”

Understanding Suzan-Lori Parks / by Larson, Jennifer, 1977-

Music, American made : essays in honor of John Graziano /

Table of Contents: “…Everett ; The Jenkins Orphanage band and Porgy and Bess / Wayne D. Shirley -- Part 5. Traditional music and art music adaptations. …”

A new literary history of America /

Table of Contents: “…. ; Ned Cobb / Robert Cantwell -- 1933, Baby Face is censored / Stephanie Zacharek ; FDR's first Fireside Chat / Paula Rabinowitz -- 1934, Robert Penn Warren / Howell Raines -- 1935, The Popular Front / Angela Miller ; The skyscraper / Sarah Whiting ; Alcoholics Anonymous / Michael Tolkin ; Porgy and Bess / John Rockwell -- 1936, Gone with the wind and Absalom, Absalom! …”

The opera manual / by Martin, Nicholas Ivor

Table of Contents: “…Oberto (Verdi) ; Obruchenie v Monastyre (Prokofiev) ; Oedipus Rex (Stravinsky) ; Of Mice and Men (Floyd) ; Ognenny Angel (Prokofiev) ; The Old Maid and the Thief (Menotti) ; Olympie (Spontini) ; A One-Day Reign (Verdi) ; The Oracle (Leoni) ; L'Oracolo (Leoni) ; Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck) ; Orlando (Handel) ; Orlando Furioso (Vivaldi) ; Orleanskaya Deva (Tchaikovsky) ; Ormindo (Cavalli) ; L'Ormindo (Cavalli) ; Orontea (Cesti) ; L'Orontea (Cesti) ; Orphée aux Enfers (Offenbach) ; Orphée et Eurydice (Gluck) ; Orpheus and Eurydice (Gluck) ; Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach) ; Osud (Janáček) ; Otello (Rossini) ; Otello (Verdi) ; Owen Wingrave (Britten) ; Paganini (Lehár) ; Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) ; Palestrina (Pfitzner) ; Paradise Lost (Penderecki) ; Parisian Life (Offenbach) ; Parisina d'Este (Donizetti) ; Parisina of Este (Donizetti) ; Parsifal (Wagner) ; Il Pastor Fido (Handel) ; Paul Bunyan (Britten) ; Le Pauvre Matelot (Milhaud) ; The Pearl Fishers (Bizet) ; Les Pêcheurs de Perles (Bizet) ; Pelléas and Mélisande (Debussy) ; Pelléas et Mélisande (Debussy) ; Pénélope (Fauré) ; Périchole (Offenbach) ; La Périchole (Offenbach) ; Peter Grimes (Britten) ; Phaëton (Lully) ; Il Piccolo Marat (Mascagni) ; La Pietra del Paragone (Rossini) ; Pikovaya Dama (Tchaikovsky) ; Pimpinone (Telemann) ; Pique Dame (Tchaikovsky) [under The Queen of Spades] ; Il Parata (Bellini) ; The Pirate (Bellini) ; The Pirates of Penzance (Sullivan) ; The Poacher (Lortzing) ; The Poisoned Kiss (Williams) ; Les Pont des Soupirs (Offenbach) ; The Poor Sailor (Milhaud) ; Porgy and Bess (Gershwin) ; Postcard from Morocco (Argento) ; The Postilion of Lonjumeau (Adam) ; Le Postillon de Lonjumeau (Adam) ; Il Postino (Catán) ; The Postman (Catán) ; The Postman Always Rings Twice (Paulus) ; The Pretender Gardener (Mozart) ; The Pretended Simpleton (Mozart) ; The Pretty Maid of Perth (Bizet) ; Il Prigioniero (Dallapiccola) ; Příhody Lišky Bystroušky (Janáček) ; Prince Igor (Borodin) ; The Princes Khovansky (Musorgsky) ; The Princess and the Pea (Toch) ; Die Prinzessin auf der Ebse (Toch) ; The Prisoner (Dallapiccola) ; Prodaná Nevĕsta (Smetana) ; The Prodigal Son (Britten) ; The Prodigal Son (Debussy) ; Prometheus (Orff) ; The Prophet (Meyerbeer) ; The Protagonist (Weill) ; Der Protagonist (Weill) ; The Protagonist (Weill) ; Punainen (Viiva) ; Purgatory (Weisgall) ; I Puritani (Bellini) ; The Puritans (Bellini) ; I Quattro Rusteghi (Wolf-Ferrari) ; The Queen of Sheba (Goldmark) ; The Queen of Spades (Tchaikovsky) ; A Quiet Place (Bernstein) ; Radamisto (Handel) ; The Rake's Progress (Stravinsky) ; The Rape of Lucretia (Britten) ; Il Re Pastore (Mozart) ; Řecké pašije (Martinů) ; The Red Line (Sallinen) ; The Return of Ulysses to his Country (Montiverdi) ; Das Rheingold (Wagner) ; The Rhinegold (Wagner) ; Riders to the Sea (Williams) ; Rienzi (Wagner) ; Rigoletto (Verdi) ; Rinaldo (Handel) ; The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Weill) ; Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (Monteverdi) ; Robert le Diable (Meyerbeer) ; Robert the Devil (Meyerbeer) ; Roberto Devereux (Donizetti) ; Le Roi d'Ys (Lalo) ; Le Roi Malgré Lui (Chabrier) ; Romeo and Juliet (Gounod) ; Roméo et Juliette (Gounod) ; La Rondine (Puccini) ; Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss) ; Le Rossignol (Stravinsky) [under The Nightingale] ; The Royal Children (Humperdinck) ; The Ruby (Joio) ; Rusalka (Dvořák) ; Russlan and Ludmilla (Glinka) ; Russlan i Ludmilla (Glinka) ; Rustic Chivalry (Mascagni) ; Sadko (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; Saffo (Pacini) ; Saint Francis of Assis (Messiaen) ; Saint François d'Assise (Messiaen) ; The Saint of Bleeker Street (Menotti) ; Salome (Strauss) ; Samson and Delilah (Saint-Saëns) ; Samson et Delila (Saint-Saëns) ; Sapho (Gounod) ; Sapho (Massenet) ; Sappho (Gounod) ; Sappho (Massenet) ; Sappho (Pacini) ; Šárka (Janáček) ; Satyagraha (Glass) ; La Scala di Seta (Rossini) ; Scaramouche (Sibelius) ; The Scarf (Hoiby) ; Der Schauspieldirektor (Mozart) ; School for Wives (Liebermann) ; Schwanda the Bagpiper (Weinberger) [under Švanda Dudák] ; Die Schweigsame Frau (Strauss) ; The Second Hurricane (Copland) ; The Secret Marriage (Cimarosa) ; Il Segreto di Susanne (Wolf-Ferrari) ; Semirama (Respighi) ; Semiramide (Rossini) ; Serse (Handel) ; La Serva Padrona (Pergolesi) ; The Shepherd King (Mozart) ; The Shepherd of the Delectable Mountains (Williams) ; The Sicilian Vespers (Verdi) ; Le Siège de Corinthe (Rossini) ; The Siege of Corinth (Rossini) ; Siegfried (Wagner) ; Il Signor Bruschino (Rossini) ; The Silent Woman (Strauss) ; The Silken Ladder (Rossini) ; Simon Boccanegra (Verdi) ; Sir John in Love (Williams) ; Sister Angelica (Puccini) ; Six Characters in Search of an Author (Weisgall) ; Skazani o Nevidimom Grade Kitezhe i Deve Fevrony (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; Skazka o Tsare Saltane (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; Skupoi Rytsar' (Rakhmaninov) ; The Sleepwalker (Bellini) ; Snegurochka (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; The Snow Maiden (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; Il Sogno di Scipione (Mozart) ; Die Soldaten (Zimmermann) ; The Soldier's Tale (Stravinsky) ; The Soldiers (Zimmermann) ; Solovey (Stravinsky) ; La Sonnambula (Bellini) ; Sorochinskaya Yarmarka (Musorgsky) ; The Spanish Hour (Ravel) ; The Spanish Lady (Elgar) ; Lo Speziale (Haydn) ; Die Spieler (Shostakovich) ; The Square (Wolf-Ferrari) ; Stiffelio (Verdi) ; The Stone Guest (Dargomyzhsky) ; Strandrecht (Smyth) ; La Straniera (Bellini) ; Street Scene (Weill) ; A Streetcar Named Desire (Previn) ; The Studen Prince (Romberg) ; Summer and Smoke (Hoiby) ; Sunday Excursion (Wilder) ; The Sunken Bell (Respighi) ; Suor Angelica (Puccini) ; Susanna's Secret (Wolf-Ferrari) ; Susannah (Floyd) ; Švanda Dudák (Weinberger) ; Švanda the Bagpiper (Weinberger) ; The Swallow (Puccini) ; Il Tabarro (Puccini) ; The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; A Tale of Two Cities (Benjamin) ; The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach) ; Tamerlano (Handel) ; The Taming of the Shrew (Giannini) ; Tancredi (Rossini) ; Tannhäuser (Wagner) ; Tartuffe (Mechem) ; The Telephone (Menotti) ; The Tempest (Adès) ; The Tempest (Hoiby) ; The Tender Land (Copland) ; Die Teufel von Loudun (Penderecki) ; Thaïs (Massenet) ; The Thieving Magpie (Rossini) ; Three Decembers (Heggie) ; The Three Penny Opera (Weill) ; Tiefland (d'Albert) ; To Cross the Face of the Moon (Martínez) ; Tom Jones (Philidor) ; Tosca (Puccini) ; Die Tot Stadt (Korngold) ; The Touchstone (Rossini) ; Transformations (Susa) ; La Traviata (Verdi) ; Treemonisha (Joplin) ; Tristan and Isolde (Wagner) ; Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) ; Troilus and Cressida (Walton) ; The Trojans (Berlioz) ; The Troubadour (Verdi) ; Trouble in Tahiti (Bernstein)[under A Quiet Place] ; Il Trovatore (Verdi) ; Les Troyens (Berlioz) ; Tsar and Carpenter (Lortzing) ; The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken (Weill) ; The Tsar's Bride (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; Tsarskaya Nevesta (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; Turandot (Busoni) ; Turandot (Puccini) ; Il Turco in Italia (Rossini) ; The Turk in Italy (Rossini) ; The Turn of the Shrew (Britten) ; The Twilight of the Gods (Wagner) ; The Two Foscari (Verdi) ; Ulisse (Dallapiccola) ; Ulysses (Dallapiccola) ; Un Ballo in Maschera (Verdi) ; Un Giorno di Regno (Verdi) ; Un Re in Ascolto (Berio) ; Une Education Manquée (Chabrier) ; The Valkyrie (Wagner) ; The Vampire (Marschner) ; Der Vampyr (Marschner) ; Vanessa (Barber) ; Vĕc Makropulsos (Janáček) ; Les Vêpres Siciliennes (Verdi) ; Veselohra no mostě (Martinů) ; I Vespri Siciliani (Verdi) ; The Vestal (Spontini) ; La Vestale (Spontini) ; Il Viaggio a Reims (Rossini) ; La Vida Breve (de Falla) ; La Vie Parisienne (Offenbach) ; Viennese Blood (Strauss Jr.) ; A View from the Bridge (Bolcom) ; A Village Romeo and Juliet (Delius) ; Le Villi (Puccini) ; Violanta (Korngold) ; The Visit of the Old Lady (Einem) ; The Visitation (Schuller) ; Viva la Mamma (Donizetti) ; Voina i Mir (Prokofiev) ; La Voix Humaine (Poulenc) ; Volo di Notte (Dallapiccola) ; Volpone (Musto) ; Von Heute auf Morgen…”