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Porgy and Bess by Gershwin, George. (1898–1937) - 1935
by Gershwin, George. (1898–1937)
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Porgy and Bess
by Gershwin, George. (1898–1937)
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New York: Gershwin Publishing Corporation, 1935. First edition, second issue. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. The Theatre Guild presents Porgy and Bess. Libretto by Du Bose Heyward Lyrics by Du Bose Heyward and Ira Gershwin Settings by Sergei Soudeikine Orchestra Conductor Alexander Smallens Production Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. [Piano-vocal score]. Small folio. Original publisher's stiff printed grey wrappers with black cloth spine. 4ff. (photographic portrait; r. title, v. woodcut illustration of donkey pulling a man in a cart; r. Index of Scenes, v. Cast of Characters; r. Story of Porgy and Bess, v. dedication), 559 (music), [i] (blank) pp. Fuld p. 539. First Edition, second issue with the index of songs but still without the capitalization of "Negro," in the fourth line of the story. Light toning to covers, small tear to upper edge, overall an unusually fine copy overall of this rare score.
Porgy and Bess, a folk opera in three acts, was first performed at the Colonial Theater in Boston on September 30th 1935. It opened in New York at the Alvin Theater on October 10th of that same year. The work includes a number of Gershwin's best-known and loved tunes, including Summertime, I Got Plenty o' Nuttin, It Ain't Necessarily So and A Woman Is a Sometime Thing.
Porgy and Bess, a folk opera in three acts, was first performed at the Colonial Theater in Boston on September 30th 1935. It opened in New York at the Alvin Theater on October 10th of that same year. The work includes a number of Gershwin's best-known and loved tunes, including Summertime, I Got Plenty o' Nuttin, It Ain't Necessarily So and A Woman Is a Sometime Thing.
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by Gershwin, George [Composer]; Heyward, DuBose [Composer];
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Porgy and Bess: First production in USSR.
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Gershwin`s Porgy and Bess in USSR!Unique program of the first production in Russia famous American opera. December 1955 - January 1956 !Porgy and Bess is an opera by George Gershwin. First staged in 1935, the opera was not very successful at first, but from the 1950s it began to gain wide popularity in the United States, and then throughout the world. The production of the opera was largely carried out by natives or children of emigrants from Russia (Gershwins, Mamulyan, Smollens, Sudeikin).The first ever trip of an American theater troupe to Russia - the crowning achievement of the world tour "Porgy and Bess" - was the fruit of long, confusing and so to the end and not clarified negotiations between the USSR and the Euryman Opera company, represented by the producers of the Gershwin Opera Brin and Davis .The tour of the American opera in 1955-1956 is an amazing example of a turn in politics, the first sign of the onset of a new period in the political and cultural life of the USSR - the Soviet "thaw"…
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Porgy and Bess: An Opera in Three Acts. Libretto by DuBose Heyward. Lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. Production Directed by Rouben Mamoulian [SIGNED BY THE GERSHWINS housed in its original Ratan box.]
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New York: Random House, 1935. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. 7/250 Signed by George and Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward and Rouben Mamoulian on colophon at rear. Folio. (12) 559 (1)pp. Original full red morocco with blind-stamped publisher's device on cover and blind-stamped lettering on spine; raised bands. Housed in original raffia-covered slipcase. Top edges gilt. Silk straw weave endpapers. Color frontispiece and color-illustrated title page by George Biddle, and publisher's device. The opera, an adaptation of Heyward's 1925 novel Porgy, opened on September 30, 1935, at Boston's Colonial Theatre. A daring artistic choice at the time, featuring a cast of classically trained African-American singers, it did not recoup its investment. Today it is viewed as Gershwin's masterpiece and an important work in the development of American musical theatre. The premiere was preceded by an adaptation of Heyward's novel by the play "Porgy" by Dorothy and DuBose Heyward, opening in 1927.…
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Porgy and Bess.: An Opera in Three Acts. Libretto by Dubose Heyward. Lyrics by Dubose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. Production directed by Rouben Mamoulian.
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New York: Random House,, 1935. Gershwin's masterpiece - signed by George and Ira First edition, signed limited issue, number 229 of 250 copies bound in publisher's full red morocco and signed by George and Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, and Rouben Mamoulian, this copy in exceptional condition, the vulnerable spine labels present in entirely unrestored condition. In summer 1926, and in one sitting, George Gershwin read DuBose Heyward's 1925 novel Porgy, about the Gullah community in South Carolina. "The potential of this book to become the basis of a powerful opera - his opera - jumped out at him. In the morning, he wrote to Heyward saying they ought to get together to discuss the idea" (Rimler, p, 21). The immediate plan to adapt it into an opera was curtailed by Heyward's wife first adapting the novel as a stage play, Porgy and Bess, which opened in 1927. It was not until 1933 that Heyward and Gershwin settled on doing the adaptation, with the agreement on 3 November 1933 that "Gershwin would write…
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