Disc No: GH 2313 As George Gershwin celebrated his thirtieth birthday in 1928, he was at the height of his early maturity. It must have seemed to such a self-confident artist as he that there was nothing he could not achieve if he so wished. However, Gershwin at the age of thirty had not yet written his masterpiece, although he had had ideas for setting an operatic libretto to be fashioned from Du Bose Hayward's novel Porgy for some years, ever since he began reading it one night, unable to sleep, and – gripped by the telling – stayed awake until daybreak before he had finished it.
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Name: Gershwin - Porgy & Bess
 

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ComposerOpusMusicKey Performer
Gershwin, George   Act 1 - Scene 1 - Introduction - ‘Summertime’   Leontyne Price
William Warfield
Gershwin, George   ‘A woman is a sometime thing’  
Gershwin, George   ‘Here come de honey man’  
Gershwin, George   ‘They pass by singin’ ’  
Gershwin, George   ‘Oh, little stars; Touch that money an’ meet yo’ Gawd’  
Gershwin, George   ‘Wake up an’ hit it out’  
Gershwin, George   Act 1 - Scene 2 - ‘Gone, gone, gone’  
Gershwin, George   ‘Overflow, overflow’  
Gershwin, George   ‘Um! A saucer-burial setup, I see’  
Gershwin, George   ‘My Man’s gone now’  
Gershwin, George   ‘How de saucer stan’ now, my sister?’  
Gershwin, George   ‘Oh, the train is at the station’  
Gershwin, George   ‘Oh, he’s gone, gone, gone’  
Gershwin, George   Act 2 - Scene 1 - ‘It takes a long pull to get there’  
Gershwin, George   ‘Oh, I got plenty o’nuttin’ ’  
Gershwin, George   ‘Mornin’, Lawyer, lookin’ for somebody?’  
Gershwin, George   ‘Bess, you is my woman now’  
Gershwin, George   ‘I stayin’ with Porgy’  
Gershwin, George   ‘Oh, I can’t sit down’  
Gershwin, George   ‘Goodbye, Porgy!’  
Gershwin, George   Act 2 - Scene 2 - ‘I ain’ got no shame’  
Gershwin, George   ‘It ain’t necessarily so’  
Gershwin, George   ‘Tell me...’  
Gershwin, George   ‘Oh .. What you want wid Bess?’  
Gershwin, George   Act 2 - Scene 3 - Interlude  
Gershwin, George   ‘Honey, dat’s all de breakfast I got time for’  
Gershwin, George   ‘Oh, doctor Jesus’  
Gershwin, George   ‘O dey’s so fresh an’fine’  
Gershwin, George   ‘I’m talkin’ about devil crabs’  
Gershwin, George   ‘Porgy, Porgy, dat you there’  
Gershwin, George   ‘I wants to stay here’  
Gershwin, George   ‘What you stand and watchin’ for, Clara?’  
Gershwin, George   Act 2 - Scene 4 - ‘Oh, de Lawd shake de Heavens’  
Gershwin, George   ‘Oh, dere’s somebody knockin’ at de do’ ’  
Gershwin, George   ‘A red-headed woman’  
Gershwin, George   ‘What’s de matter?’  
Gershwin, George   Act 3 - Scene 1 - ‘Clara, Clara, don’t you be downhearted’  
Gershwin, George   Interlude (Death of Crown)  
Gershwin, George   Act 3 - Scene 2 - Introduction  
Gershwin, George   ‘Wait for us at the corner, Al’  
Gershwin, George   Oh, Gawd! They goin’ make him look on Crown’s face!’  
Gershwin, George   ‘There’s a boat dat’s leavin’ ’  
Gershwin, George   Act 3 - Scene 3 - Introduction  
Gershwin, George   ‘Thank Gawd I’s home again!’  
Gershwin, George   ‘Oh, Bess, oh where’s my Bess’  
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