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.…”

It had to be you.

Table of Contents: “…Track titles: It Had To Be You -- It Could Happen To You -- San Fernando Valley -- I'll Walk Alone -- I'll Be Seeing You -- Sweet Lorraine -- Amor -- Porgy And Bess Medley -- The Trolley Song -- With A Song In My Heart -- Night And Day -- The Music Stopped -- Together -- My Heart Tells Me -- I Couldn't Sleep A Wink Last Night -- Begin The Beguine.…”
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Written by Gershwin.

Table of Contents: “…Track titles: Embraceable You -- Liza -- Summertime -- Let's Call The Whole Thing Off -- They Can't Take That Away From Me -- Changing My Tune -- Rhapsody In Blue -- (I've Got) Beginner Luck -- Swanee -- A Foggy Day -- I Was Doing All Right -- Someone To Watch Over me -- The Man I Love -- Porgy And Bess -- Nice Work If You Can Get It -- I've Got A Crush On You -- But Not For Me -- They All Laughed -- Embraceable You.…”
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By George! : Gershwin's greatest hits. by Gershwin, George, 1898-1937

Table of Contents: “…Rhapsody in blue (16:12) -- Someone to watch over me (3:43) -- An American in Paris (14:14) -- Strike up the band (1:30) -- Selections from Porgy and Bess (20:26) -- A foggy day (4:41) -- Fascinating rhythm (1:43) -- They can't take that away from me (2:23).…”
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Soundtrack available : essays on film and popular music /

Table of Contents: “…Killick -- Sounding the American heart : cultural politics, country music, and contemporary American film / Barbara Ching -- Crossing musical borders : the soundtrack for Touch of evil / Jill Leeper -- Documented/documentary Asians : Gurinder Chadha's I'm British but-- and the musical mediation of sonic and visual identities / Nabeel Zuberi -- Class swings : music, race, and social mobility in Broken strings / Adam Knee -- Borrowing black masculinity : the role of Johnny Hartman in The bridges of Madison County / Krin Gabbard -- "It ain't necessarily so that it ain't necessarily so" : African American recordings of Porgy and Bess as film and cultural criticism / Arthur Knight -- "Hollywood has taken on a new color" : the Yiddish blackface of Samuel Goldwyn's Porgy and Bess / Jonathan Gill -- Picturizing American cinema : Hindi film songs and the last days of genre / Corey K. …”
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Superbass 2 /

Table of Contents: “…Superbass theme -- Get happy -- Mysterioso -- Papa was a rolling stone / George Fludas, percussion -- Three songs from Porgy and Bess. Summertime ; I loves you, Porgy ; It ain't necessarily so -- Birk's works -- My funny Valentine -- Three by four -- Taco with a pork chop / George Fludas and Larry Fuller, percussion -- Superbass theme.…”
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The Gershwins and me : a personal history in twelve songs / by Feinstein, Michael

Table of Contents: “…George and Ira : the music and the words -- The musical theater -- Ira and me -- Michael and George -- Music and society -- "One plus one equals three" : love songs and how to write them -- Performing and interpreting the song -- Why some songs survive and others don't -- The top of the mountain? : Porgy and Bess -- Hollywood and the end -- George Gershwin's musical reputation -- What might have been.…”

Strike up the band the Canadian Brass plays George Gershwin / by Gershwin, George, 1898-1937

Table of Contents: “…No. 1 (1:39) ; No. 2 (3:41) ; No. 3 (1:10) -- Porgy and Bess (suite) (24:39)…”

Soundtrack available : essays on film and popular music /

Table of Contents: “…Killick -- Sounding the American heart : cultural politics, country music, and contemporary American film / Barbara Ching -- Crossing musical borders : the soundtrack for Touch of evil / Jill Leeper -- Documented/documentary Asians : Gurinder Chadha's I'm British but-- and the musical mediation of sonic and visual identities / Nabeel Zuberi -- Class swings : music, race, and social mobility in Broken strings / Adam Knee -- Borrowing black masculinity : the role of Johnny Hartman in The bridges of Madison County / Krin Gabbard -- "It ain't necessarily so that it ain't necessarily so" : African American recordings of Porgy and Bess as film and cultural criticism / Arthur Knight -- "Hollywood has taken on a new color" : the Yiddish blackface of Samuel Goldwyn's Porgy and Bess / Jonathan Gill -- Picturizing American cinema : Hindi film songs and the last days of genre / Corey K. …”
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Art & craft : thirty years on the literary beat / by Thompson, Bill, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Hutchisson's DuBose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and Bess /…”
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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 kaleidoscope /

Table of Contents: “…XV:25 / composed by Joseph Haydn -- Passaccaglia in G Minor / composed by Johan Halvorsen -- Torments of love / composed by Fritz Kreisler -- The Joy of love / composed by Fritz Kreisler -- Tango, Op. 165 / composed by Isaac Albéniz -- Grand Tango / composed by Astor Piazzolla -- My love -- Concert fantasy on the themes from 'Porgi and Bess' / composed by George Gershwin -- Peacherine Rag / composed by Scott Joplin.…”
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Gershwin greatest hits. by Gershwin, George, 1898-1937

Table of Contents: “…Strike up the band (the Boston Pops Orchestra ; John Williams, conductor) -- Rhapsody in blue (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra ; André Previn, piano & conductor) -- Selections from Girl Crazy (the Boston Pops Orchestra ; John Williams, conductor) -- A symphonic picture of Porgy and Bess (Montreal Symphony Orchestra ; Charles Dutoit, conductor) -- Three preludes for piano solo (Werner Haas, piano) -- Lullaby for string orchestra (the Cleveland Orchestra ; Riccardo Chailly, conductor) -- An American in Paris (Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra ; Zubin Mehta, conductor).…”
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Summertime : music for oboe and guitar /

Table of Contents: “…No. 3, An Malvina / Mertz -- Distribuicao de flores, W381, 575 / Villa-Lobos -- Summertime, from Porgy and Bess / Gershwin -- Entr'acte / Ibert -- Adagio from Toccata, Adagio and Fugue, BWV 564 / Bach -- Les regrets, op. 36 / Coste -- Marche funèbre pour harpolyre / Sor -- Sechs Variationen, op. 42 / Johann Baptist Wanhal.…”
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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.…”

Our love is here to stay Ella & Louis sing Gershwin. by Gershwin, George, 1898-1937

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. …”

Game Day! /

Table of Contents: “…-- Illinois Loyalty -- Oskee Wow-Wow (top) -- Run On Cadence/Revised Entrance #3 -- Patriotic Medley -- Oskee Wow-Wow (hold) -- William Tell -- War Chant -- Trombone Cheer -- Hey Cheer -- Imperial March -- Strike Up the Band -- Porgy and Bess Medley -- I Got Rhythm -- Stevie Wonder Medley -- Thriller -- Three In One -- Hey Baby -- Gigolo -- Drum Cadence -- Illinois Loyalty -- Stars and Stripes Forever -- Hail to the Orange (vocal) -- Dismissal -- Bad Whistle -- Final Score.…”
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