George Gershwin has written 48 shows including Half-Past Eight (Composer), La, La, Lucille (Composer), La-La-Lucille! (Composer), Morris Gest's "Midnight Whirl" (Composer), George White's Scandals ...
uncut version of Porgy and Bess. Her name was Kay Swift and, 40 years previously, she had fought with its composer George Gershwin over the cuts producers asked him to make to the piece ahead of ...
It was 5° above zero when the 85 members of the Porgy and Bess company got to ... a trip to the Soviet Union for the 20-year-old George Gershwin-DuBose Heyward folk opera about poor Negroes ...
Two short operas that got their premieres at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. feature Black female protagonists.
It was not until the revival, after composer George Gershwin’s death, that Porgy and Bess came into its own. The melodrama of a 1905 Charleston waterfront slum, which might otherwise have been ...
The Bowling Green Area Community Bands will celebrate the new year with their concert: Music for the New Year!…old, new, ...
She also worked alongside George Gershwin on many of his works such as Porgy and Bess – and they had a long affair. But Kay has largely been forgotten by history. A new Radio 3 Drama ...
The Bowling Green Area Community Bands will celebrate the new year with their concert: “Music for the New Year!…old, new, ...
Join Juliet Ewing for an encore performance of Rise Up Singing - The Music of George Gershwin, Saturday, February 8 at 4PM, ...