** Michael Woolcock ( producer ), Lorin Maazel ( conductor ), Leona Mitchell, Willard White & the Cleveland Orchestra for Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

** Michael Woolcock ( producer ), Lorin Maazel ( conductor ), Leona Mitchell, Willard White & the Cleveland Orchestra for Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

However, Koran Mdivani continued to live with Bess Cunning, who adopted him in 1940 as Daniel Michael Cunning.

Elvira had fallen madly in love with Ladislaus Malinowski and knew that he was primarily interested in her money, but was concerned that if Michael Gorman revealed his marriage to Bess Sedgwick it would endanger her father's legacy.

* " Ike / Bess Truman " in the West Coast Premiere of Michael John LaChiusa's play, First Lady Suite

Michael Bess sees the world increasingly permeated by potent technologies in a process he calls “ artificialization ” which has been accelerating since the 1700s, but at a greatly accelerated rate after 1945.

* Bess, Michael, Mark Cioc, and James Sievert, " Environmental History Writing in Southern Europe ," Environmental History, 5 ( 2000 ), pp. 545 – 56 ;

The final episode (" And Baby Makes Six ") had Bess announcing that she and Mark were expecting their first child.

It was recorded for the first time by Abbie Mitchell on 19 July 1935, with George Gershwin playing the piano and conducting the orchestra ( on: George Gershwin Conducts Excerpts from Porgy & Bess, Mark 56 667 ).

Another recording was made by Mark Warnow and released by MGM Records as catalog number 30040, with the flip side " Bess, You Is My Woman.

Among the many films she appeared in during this period were The Robe ( 1953 ), Young Bess ( 1953 ), Désirée ( 1954 ), The Egyptian ( 1954 ), Guys and Dolls ( 1955 ) – " in which she's delightfully proper ( and improper ) as the Salvation Army officer Sarah Brown " – The Big Country ( 1958 ), Elmer Gantry ( 1960 ), ( directed by her second husband, Richard Brooks ), Spartacus ( 1960 ), All the Way Home ( 1963 ) – a film of James Agee's novel, A Death in the Family – and The Happy Ending ( 1969 ), again directed by Brooks and for which she received her second Oscar nomination.

* Standifer, James: " The Complicated Life of Porgy and Bess " Humanities November / December 1997 ( Also accessible on NEH website )

* Hutchisson, James, M .: Dubose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and Bess, University Press of Mississippi, 2000 ISBN 1-57806-250-0

He has been married to Jennifer Sloan since May 2, 1998, with whom he has a daughter, Jamison Bess ( born July 28, 1999 ), and a son, Jared James ( born February 8, 2002 ).

" Heyward's biographer James M. Hutchisson characterizes Porgy as " the first major southern novel to portray blacks without condescension " and states that the libretto to Porgy and Bess was largely Heyward's work.

From England to Massachusetts in a fleet of five ships, the Angel Gabriel joined the James, the Elizabeth ( Bess ), the Mary and the Diligence.

Arts consultant Jeffrey James claims that Blue Monday is the " genesis of the Rhapsody ", and " the missing link in Gershwin's evolution into the Rhapsody in Blue " as well as a source to his Preludes, Piano Concerto and Porgy and Bess.

Samuel Smalls, the man upon whom the novel Porgy and subsequent opera Porgy and Bess are based, is buried in the cemetery beside James Island Presbyterian Church.

* Samuel Smalls, the man on whom DuBose Heyward based his novel Porgy and its subsequent George Gershwin written opera Porgy and Bess, is buried next to James Island Presbyterian Church.

In his History, Defoe records that Bess was " a main lodestone in attracting of him up to this Eminence of Guilt.

Another descendant of Heyward was DuBose Heyward ( 1885 – 1940 ), a poet, novelist and playwright who influenced the Southern Renaissance and is most well known for the 1925 novel and 1927 play Porgy, and the libretto to the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess, by George Gershwin and based on the play.

Angelou's list of occupations includes pimp, prostitute, night-club dancer and performer, castmember of the musical Porgy and Bess, coordinator for Martin Luther King, Jr .' s Southern Christian Leadership Conference, author, journalist in Egypt and Ghana during the days of decolonization, and actor, writer, director, and producer of plays, movies, and public television programs.

During 1954 and 1955 Angelou toured Europe with a production of the opera Porgy and Bess.

SCA will own Tempo, Bess and Bluemia brands plus 5 plants in Europe and Hong Kong, and own European rights to Bounty and Charmin.

He toured the country and Europe with Porgy and Bess.

In 1952, Warfield performed in Porgy and Bess during a tour of Europe sponsored by the U. S. State Department ( he made six separate tours for the US Department of State, more than any other American solo artist.

Alternative spellings and variants of the name itself include " Kiawa ," " Kittiwar " ( in DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy ), and " Kittiwah " ( in George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess ).

" Queen Bess ," as she was known, was a highly popular draw for the next five years.

" Theory and Practice in Porgy and Bess: the Gershwin-Schillinger Connection ," Musical Quarterly 78 ( 1994 ): 9-33.

" What the Triangles Have Told Me: Manifestations of the Schillinger System of Musical Composition in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess ," Ph. D.

In the end of the novel Venters and Bess, " the rustler's girl ," escape to the East, while Lassiter, Fay, and Jane, pursued by both Mormons and rustlers, escape into a paradise-like valley by toppling a giant balancing rock, forever closing off the only way in or out.

The standard " Summertime " is notable for its upbeat, searching feel, a demonstration of Coltrane's " sheets of sound ," a stark antithesis to Miles Davis ' melancholy, lyrical version on Porgy and Bess, and makes use of offbeat pedal points and augmented chords.

Big Jeff Bess, who portrayed the Sheriff, was a Nashville-based country music performer on radio station WLAC there, leading a group called " Big Jeff and His Radio Playboys ," which recorded for Dot Records and included guitarist Grady Martin.

) since Gershwin's 1935 " Porgy and Bess ," with one of the most serious, lyrically seductive scores since Rodgers and Hammerstein were creating their midcentury, midcult epics ".

His mother Bess, who could not write herself, reminded her husband through Sturley to buy the apron he had promised her and `` a suite of hattes for 5 boies the yongst lined & trimmed with silke '' ( for John, only a year old ).

When he died without male issue in 1564 / 5, in suspicious circumstances ( probably poisoned by his younger brother ), he left everything to Bess, to the detriment of his daughters and brother.

Etta Moten Barnett ( November 5, 1901 – January 2, 2004 ) was an American actress and contralto vocalist, who was identified with her signature role of " Bess " in Porgy and Bess.

* Elizabeth " Bess " Temple-Daughter of the Judge and romantic interest of Oliver ( chapter 5, page 66 )

* Typhoon Bess ( 1965 ) ( T6528, 34W ), Category 5 super typhoon

* Typhoon Bess ( 1971 ) ( T7128, 30W, Yayang ), Category 5 super typhoon ; struck Taiwan and China

* Typhoon Bess ( 1982 ) ( T8210, 11W ), Category 5 super typhoon ; hit southern Japan and caused 59 deaths