In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.

A third single was released amid controversy before Christmas 1984: a revival of " It Ain't Necessarily So ", the George and Ira Gershwin classic ( from Porgy and Bess ) which questions the authenticity of Biblical tales.

In 1976 Oscar Peterson played ( with Joe Pass on acoustic guitar ) songs from Porgy And Bess on the clavichord.

He was also responsible, along with DuBose Heyward, for the libretto to George's opera Porgy and Bess.

In 1958, Davis and Evans were back in the studio to record Porgy and Bess, an arrangement of pieces from George Gershwin's opera of the same name.

Porgy and Bess ( 1935 ), influenced by jazz styles, and Candide ( 1956 ), with its sweeping, lyrical passages and farcical parodies of opera, both opened on Broadway but became accepted as part of the opera repertory.

Porgy and Bess tops a list which includes Carousel, She Loves Me, and The Wiz, which he saw six times.

* In late March 1976, the first truly complete recording of the opera Porgy and Bess is released in a 3-LP set, by Decca Records in England and by London Records in the U. S. It stars Willard White and Leona Mitchell.

Many celebrities appear, including Oscar Levant, Fred Astaire, Otto Klemperer, Lily Pons, and members of the original cast of Porgy and Bess.

* Porgy and Bess ( 1959 ): a Hollywoodization of the George Gershwin opera

* Porgy and Bess ( 1959 )

Much of the recitative of George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess, for instance, is merely DuBose and Dorothy Heyward's play Porgy set to music as written-in prose-with the lyrics of the arias, duets, trios and choruses written in verse.

* " Summertime " ( song ), a 1935 popular song by George Gershwin from the opera Porgy and Bess

Even before the play had been fully written, Heyward was in discussions with George Gershwin for an operatic version of his novel, which appeared in 1935 as Porgy and Bess ( renamed to distinguish it from the play ).

George and Ira Gershwin, along with DuBose Heyward, based the libretto of their opera version, Porgy and Bess, not on the original novel, but on the play.

( In the novel, after Bess leaves with " Sportin ' Life " and goes to New York, Porgy merely returns from jail, disillusioned, to being a beggar.

* Fitzgerald recorded three Verve studio albums with Armstrong, two albums of standards ( 1956's Ella and Louis and 1957's Ella and Louis Again ), and a third album featured music from the Gershwin musical Porgy and Bess.

Louis Armstrong served as a model for Cab Calloway, whose 1930s scat solos inspired Gershwin's use of the medium in his Porgy and Bess ; it was from the 1926 recording of " Heebie Jeebies " arose the techniques that would form the foundation of modern scat.

" by Tim Hardin, credited, quoting ( during a live recording ) " Summertime ", from Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin, uncredited.

* Maria, Porgy and Bess ( Gershwin )

In his teens, he toured with Dorothy Dandridge and Nat King Cole, joined the Wings Over Jordan Gospel Singers for a while, and also played a small part in the film Porgy and Bess.

Productions under the new ownership have included The Rat Pack: Live From Las Vegas, which closed in October 2006, and a new musical version of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, directed by Trevor Nunn, which premièred in 2006.

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 ).

Porgy is a novel written by the American author DuBose Heyward in 1925, as well as a play which Dorothy Heyward helped him to write which was premiered in 1927.

Together they created the experimental one-act jazz opera Blue Monday set in Harlem, which is widely regarded as a forerunner to Porgy and Bess ten years later.

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.

George Gershwin used it in his opera Porgy and Bess, though sometimes the recitative in that work is changed to spoken dialogue.

Her big aria in the opera was My Man's Gone Now, Serena's lament after her husband is murdered in a crap game ; but it was Anne Brown, and not Ruby Elzy who sang it on the so-called " original cast " album of selections from Porgy and Bess, made in 1940.

She is best remembered today as the singing voice for Bess ( played by Dorothy Dandridge ) in the 1959 movie Porgy and Bess.

McDonald appeared in a revised version of Porgy and Bess, at the Loeb Drama Center ( in Cambridge, Massachusetts ) from August through September 2011, and recreated the role on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, which opened on January 12, 2012 and is currently playing.

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.

This is one of a few operas written about the African-American experience ; other notable examples are George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess ( 1935 ) and Scott Joplin's Treemonisha ( 1910 / 1972 ).

" Summertime " is an aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess.

The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, although the song is also co-credited to Ira Gershwin by ASCAP.

The song is sung multiple times throughout Porgy and Bess, first by Clara in Act I as a lullaby and soon after as counterpoint to the craps game scene, in Act II in a reprise by Clara, and in Act III by Bess, singing to Clara's baby.

While in his own description, Gershwin did not use any previously composed spirituals in his opera, Summertime is often considered an adaptation of the Afro-American spiritual Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, which ended the play version of Porgy.

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.

A recording of the suite coupled with Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture, and played by Antal Dorati and the Detroit Symphony is on Decca.

It is contended that the use of this album cover in Selections from George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess qualifies as fair use for the following reasons:

This album is a 1950 recording of selections from George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess, sung by the noted opera stars Robert Merrill and Risë Stevens.

" In an August 1997 issue, JazzTimes magazine called Porgy and Bess " possibly the best of the collaborations between Miles and Gil Evans ... Evans is justly regarded as the master of modern orchestration and Porgy and Bess shows him at his best.

Their work is now known best in its adaptation as the opera Porgy and Bess ( 1935 ), with music by George Gershwin.