Podcasts about DuBose Heyward

Hi friends, and welcome back to Busy Kids Love Music! This week, we conclude our three-part series on the brilliant composer George Gershwin with a look at his opera masterpiece, Porgy and Bess. What You'll Hear in This Episode: Background on Porgy and Bess: Learn how Gershwin, his brother Ira, and DuBose Heyward collaborated to create this groundbreaking "folk opera" that premiered in 1935. The Story: Explore the opera's plot, centered on the struggles and resilience of a close-knit African American community in Catfish Row, Charleston. Unforgettable Music: Enjoy excerpts from iconic pieces like: “Summertime” “I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'” “Bess, You Is My Woman Now” Cultural Impact: Discover how Gershwin's decision to cast African American performers in the leading roles broke barriers while also sparking debate. Modern Reflections: Understand how productions today balance honoring Gershwin's work with addressing cultural sensitivities. Additional Resources:

Join Jay and Deon at the dining room table as they discuss the musical projects they have been obsessed with as of late. Super-special-secret friend Gary Johnson revisits Michigan's rich music history and exposes touring sonic imposters of yesteryear. A Hell's Half Mile Music Festival preview is also included in this joyful and juicy episode. Dig in! Sonic contributors to the twenty-third BONUS episode of Lightnin' Licks radio podcast include: Koreatown Oddity, Brothers Johnson, Jurassic 5, DJ NuMark, Dave Matthews Band, Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Quincy Jones, Left Banque, The Ballroom, October Country, The Fifth Dimension, Shellac, The Pixies, The Breeders, Brian Eno, Roxy Music, The Winkies, Godfather Don, Das EFX, Fu-Shnickens, Public Enemy, Slaunchwise, Bread, Bread Machine, Neko Case, The New Pornographers, Fancey, Randy VanWarmer, The Organ, The Smiths, Jack Ashford, Johnny Griffith, Billy Sha-Rae's Band, Eddie Parker, Sandra Richardson, Lee Rogers, The Magnificents, Cody Chestnutt, Third Company Syndicate, Sault, Big Maybelle, ? and the Mysterians, Earl Van Dyke and the Soul Brothers, Elvets Rednow, Bob James, Bruce Springsteen, Waxahatchee, Billy Joel, Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz, Steely Dan, The Velvet Underground, REM, Mitch Ryder, Nico, Lou Reed, Keith Richards, Cheap Trick, The Zombies, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Daniel Ralston's “The True Story of the Fake Zombies” podcast, Smokey Robinson, Rob Davis, Cathy Dennis, the Texas fake Zombies, ZZ Top, the Michigan fake Zombies, The Excels, Quintet Plus, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, The Monkees, The Archies, Colin Blunstone, Big Star, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Curtis Gadson, Los Bitchos, Liquid Mike, Sungaze, J.W. Francis, Bluhm, and The Monophonics. Bonus # 23 mixtape: [SIDE ONE] (1) Los Bitchos – Don't Change (2) Godfather Don – On & On (3) The Zombies – Hung up on a Dream (4) The Stylists – I Need Your Love (To Satisfy my Soul) (5) Hurray for the Riff Raff – Hawkmoon (6) The Organ – Basement Band Song [SIDE TWO] (1) Liquid Mike – Man Lives (2) The Velvet Underground – I'm Waiting for the Man (3) Waxahatchee – Crowbar (4) October Country – My Girlfriend is a Witch (5) The Breeders – Fortunately Gone (6) Brian Eno & the Winkies – Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch (super special not-so-secret hidden track) Bread Machine – Guitar Man Huge thanks to Gary for one of the most interesting conversations to ever take place across the dining room table. Visit the Michigan Rock & Roll Legends Hall of Fame. Read more about Bay City's doomed teen club of the mid 60s Band Canyon.  Subscribe to The True Story of the Fake Zombies podcast. Check out Gary's podcast. Make sure to attend Hell's Half Mile Film and Music Festival in Downtown Bay City, September 26th through 29th. Check out the HHM 2024 Music Playlist, too! Shop at Electric Kitsch. Drink Blue Chair Bay. Be kind. Rewind. EXPLICIT LANGUAGE (Sorry, Gary)

Welcome to Season 03 Episode 20 - the "Peak Sunshine" edition - of Notes from the Aisle Seat, the podcast featuring news and information about the arts in northern Chautauqua County NY, sponsored by the 1891 Fredonia Opera House. Your host is Tom Loughlin, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair Emeritus of Theatre and Dance at SUNY Fredonia. Guests on this episode include: Capt. Curran Schenck, Associate Bandmaster, US Army Soldier's Chorus; Mr. Michael Mcentarfer of The Wretched Group, discussing A Hard Day's Night; and Ms. Tina Rausa, President of the Board of the Lakeshore Center for the Arts on the 2024 Juicebox Organic One-Act Play Festival. Notes from the Aisle Seat is available from most of your favorite podcast sites, as well as on the Opera House YouTube Channel. If you enjoy this podcast, please spread the word through your social media feeds, give us a link on your website, and consider becoming a follower by clicking the "Follow" button in the upper right-hand corner of our home page. If you have an arts event you'd like to publicize, hit us up at operahouse@fredopera.org and let us know what you have! Please give us at least one month's notice to facilitate timely scheduling. Thanks for listening! Time Stamps Capt. Curran Schenck/US Army Soldier's Chorus  02:58 Michael Mcentarfer/A Hard Day's Night   17:48 Arts Calendar   36:15 Ms. Tina Rausa/Juicebox Organic One-Act Play Festival  38:40 Media "Summertime", DJ Dazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince, official music video from the album Greatest Hits, March 2011 "The Star Spangled Banner", composed by Francis Scott Key (1814), performed by the US Army Field Band Soldiers Chorus, April 2016 "A Hard Day's Night", John Lennon and Paul McCartney, composers, from the album A Hard Day's Night, July, 1964, Parlophone Records; performed by Blues Beatles, March 2017 "Summertime," from the musical Porgy and Bess, composed by George Gershwin, lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin, September 1935; performed by Louis Armstrong (trumpet) and Ella Fitzgerald, 1957. "Can't Help Falling in Love With You," Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, George David Weiss, composers; performed by Elvis Presley, from the movie Blue Hawaii, November 1961, RCA Victor Records "See You In September," written by Sid Wayne and Sherman Edwards, originally recorded by The Tempos, Climax Records 1959; performed by Julie Budd, January 2011 Artist Links Capt. Curran Schenck Mr. Michael Mcentarfer/The Wretched Group Ms. Tina Rausa Nickel City Opera Company - The Falling and the Rising Lakeshore Center for the Arts Juicebox Organic One-Act Festival Tickets Main Street Studios BECOME AN OPERA HOUSE MEMBER!    

Un po' di Janis e sregolatezza In sottofondo un estratto di "Summertime" cantata da Janis Joplin nel 1968 (musica George Gershwin, testo DuBose Heyward e Ira Gershwin, 1935 all rights reserved)

Barefoot Days have arrived, a season so sweet and easy that it has its own anthem.“Summertime,” from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, is perhaps the perfect jazz standard. Unforgettable lyrics. A melody that seems to be from a dream. Like magic, the song sounds new every single time, no matter how many times you've heard it.And you've heard it many times. “Summertime” is one of the most recorded songs of all times; in fact, Guinness World Records is aware of more than 67,000 individual recordings of “Summertime” since its composition in 1934. Just two years later, Billie Holiday was the first to hit the U.S. pop charts with it, reaching No. 12 in September 1936.Gershwin or Not GershwinBut did you know that neither the tune to "Summertime" nor its lyrics might be original with Gershwin?First, about those words. Gershwin's opera was based on a 1925 novel called Porgy by DuBose Heyward, whose wife, Dorothy, turned into a stage play in 1927. Later, DuBose collaborated with Ira Gershwin to craft the libretto for the Gershwins' folk opera Porgy and Bess, and the lyrics to "Summertime" are assumed to be by the Heywards.And the melody? Well, that's a little more complicated. Gershwin copyrighted it, saying he used no previously composed spirituals in his opera. But really?Some critics contend “Summertime” is an adaptation of the African American spiritual "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child." Adding a bit of heft to this theory is the fact that the final scene of Dorothy Hetward's stage play — which predated the Gershwin work by eight years — ended with a performance of “Motherless Child.” So, it's debatable. If you want to do your own research, YouTube offers assorted performances of “Motherless Child.” Gershwin detractors often specifically cite Paul Robeson's 1930s recording as Exhibit A.Our Take on the TuneThe Flood started playing “Summertime” a quarter of a century ago with various arrangements. Sometimes, for instance, it has been an instrumental, featuring solos over the by years by Joe Dobbs and Doug Chaffin, by Jacob Scarr, Paul Martin and Vanessa Coffman.The first time the song came to a Flood album — the 2002 The 1937 Flood Plays Up a Storm — Charlie Bowen handled the vocals. Eleven years later, by the time the band released its fifth album, Cleanup & Recovery, the guys had turned over the singing to Michelle Hoge.Now in our latest take on the tune, Randy Hamilton does double duty. He takes over the vocals, and his soulful bass work creates a moody setting that inspires introspective solos by Sam St. Clair and Danny Cox. Take a listen; it's “Summertime,” 2023. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

We've got a special sneak peek into our October episode this week. Get the giggles with us as poet and beautiful soul Jorah LaFleur shares her poetic views on sex in a car, describing being high, and a childhood story. Enjoy getting high with us! JorahLaFleur.com The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes is a 1939 children's book written by DuBose Heyward and illustrated by Marjorie Flack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Country_Bunny_and_the_Little_Gold_Shoes **Disclaimers** The opinions and views expressed in this podcast are solely those of our own. Listener discretion is advised. Marijuana is not legal in all states. Please check your state's laws before engaging in recreational use. Please do not smoke and drive. Smoke responsibly. Marijuana should be done with consent. Please respect others' decisions not to engage in recreational marijuana use. Mature audiences advised. Produced and edited by Sarah Etherton and Kiki Rau, featuring Brandon. Logo art by Ali McQueen. Intro-music Jazzaddict's Intro by Cosimo Fogg (201) | https://soundcloud.com/cosimo-fogg Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Contact us at: tokelorepod@gmail.com IG: @TokeLore.Podcast T: @Toke_Lore Patreon page now available: patreon.com/tokelorepodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tokelore/message

Desde el principio, Porgy and Bess suscitó controversia. Gran parte de la obra se comprimió para adaptarse a la partitura musical de George Gershwin, lo que hizo que algunos de los personajes de la ópera parecieran más estereotipados de lo previsto. Con José Manuel Corrales.

Desde el principio, Porgy and Bess suscitó controversia. Gran parte de la obra se comprimió para adaptarse a la partitura musical de George Gershwin, lo que hizo que algunos de los personajes de la ópera parecieran más estereotipados de lo previsto. Con José Manuel Corrales.

PORGY AND BESS COMPOSER: George Gershwin LYRICIST: Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward BOOK: DuBose Heyward SOURCE: Porgy by DuBose Heyward (1925)  DIRECTOR: Rouben Mamoulian PRINCIPLE CAST: Anne Brown (Bess), John W. Bubbles (Sportin' Life), Todd Duncan (Porgy),  OPENING DATE: October 10th, 1935 CLOSING DATE: January 25th, 1936 PERFORMANCES: 124 SYNOPSIS: When the murderous Crown abandons his lover Bess, a disabled beggar, Porgy, vows to protect her. When Crown vows to return and take Bess away, Porgy and Bess's love for one another is thrown into peril.  With a score and libretto by George and Ira Gershwin with DuBose Heyward respectively, Porgy and Bess tells the controversial love story of a disabled Black man named Porgy through the style of grand opera. The premiere production featured a troupe of classically trained Black singers and was significant for the way it fused American folk music with classical orchestrations. Key songs became standards in their day, and ‘Summertime' maintains its popularity as a jazz cover. Davóne Tines explores the complexity of this piece, specifically how it relates to the black experience being created through a white lens.  Davóne Tines- Heralded as a "singer of immense power and fervor" and “[one] of the most powerful voices of our time” (@latimes) "the immensely gifted American bass-baritone Davóne Tines has won acclaim, and advanced the field of classical music." (@nytimes) this “next generation leader (Time Magazine) is a path-breaking artist at the intersection of many histories, cultures, and aesthetics, his work blends opera, spirituals, gospel, and anthems, as a means to tell a deeply personal story of perseverance and human connection. SOURCES Porgy and Bess Members of the Original Broadway Cast Recording. Decca (1940) Porgy and Bess, starring Dorothy Dandridge and Sidney Poitier, directed by Otto Preminger. Columbia Pictures (1959) The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess: Race, Culture, and America's Most Famous Opera by Ellen Noonan, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (2012) The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess: A 75th Anniversary Celebration by Robin Thompson, Amadeus (2010) “On My Way”: The Untold Story of Rouben Mamoulian, George Gershwin, and Porgy and Bess by Joseph Horowitz, W.W. Norton & Company (2013) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shola von Reinhold is the author of LOTE, a novel about getting lost in the archives and finding what the archives have lost. LOTE won the 2021 James Tait Black prize so who better to join Shola on Novel Dialogue than Ben Bateman of Edinburgh University, lead judge of the prize committee? This conversation takes listeners back to all yesterday's parties as Shola, Ben, and Aarthi time travel to the Harlem Renaissance and the interwar modernist era. Shola offers up Richard Bruce Nugent as their current figure of fascination (or “transfixion” to use a key image from LOTE), and wonders what it would have been like to move through Harlem and London by Nugent's side. Recovering the stories of black writers and artists is essential to Shola's literary project. It is also inseparable from restoring queerness to the once hyper-masculine and “muscular” paradigm of modernism. In a stirring discussion of the aesthetic forms and moods of historical recovery, Ben and Shola sink into the “purpleness” of the fin-de-siècle and explore the critical power of black sensuousness. Talk of decadence, ornamentality, and frivolity shapes the latter half of this episode, and Doris Payne, the West Virginian jewel thief, emerges as an exquisitely improbable modernist heroine! Mentioned in this episode: -Richard Bruce Nugent -Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward, Porgy -E.M. Forster -David Levering Lewis, When Harlem was in Vogue -Saidiya Hartman -Benjamin Kahan, The Book of Minor Perverts -James Joyce, Ulysses -Willa Cather, “Paul's Case” -Ornamentality via Kant, Hegel, and Adolf Loos -Susan Sontag -Doris Payne – a.k.a “Diamond Doris” -Édouard Glissant Aarthi Vadde is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. Email: aarthi.vadde@duke.edu. John Plotz is Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative. Email: plotz@brandeis.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Shola von Reinhold is the author of LOTE, a novel about getting lost in the archives and finding what the archives have lost. LOTE won the 2021 James Tait Black prize so who better to join Shola on Novel Dialogue than Ben Bateman of Edinburgh University, lead judge of the prize committee? This conversation takes listeners back to all yesterday's parties as Shola, Ben, and Aarthi time travel to the Harlem Renaissance and the interwar modernist era. Shola offers up Richard Bruce Nugent as their current figure of fascination (or “transfixion” to use a key image from LOTE), and wonders what it would have been like to move through Harlem and London by Nugent's side. Recovering the stories of black writers and artists is essential to Shola's literary project. It is also inseparable from restoring queerness to the once hyper-masculine and “muscular” paradigm of modernism. In a stirring discussion of the aesthetic forms and moods of historical recovery, Ben and Shola sink into the “purpleness” of the fin-de-siècle and explore the critical power of black sensuousness. Talk of decadence, ornamentality, and frivolity shapes the latter half of this episode, and Doris Payne, the West Virginian jewel thief, emerges as an exquisitely improbable modernist heroine! Mentioned in this episode: -Richard Bruce Nugent -Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward, Porgy -E.M. Forster -David Levering Lewis, When Harlem was in Vogue -Saidiya Hartman -Benjamin Kahan, The Book of Minor Perverts -James Joyce, Ulysses -Willa Cather, “Paul's Case” -Ornamentality via Kant, Hegel, and Adolf Loos -Susan Sontag -Doris Payne – a.k.a “Diamond Doris” -Édouard Glissant Aarthi Vadde is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. Email: aarthi.vadde@duke.edu. John Plotz is Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative. Email: plotz@brandeis.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shola von Reinhold is the author of LOTE, a novel about getting lost in the archives and finding what the archives have lost. LOTE won the 2021 James Tait Black prize so who better to join Shola on Novel Dialogue than Ben Bateman of Edinburgh University, lead judge of the prize committee? This conversation takes listeners back to all yesterday's parties as Shola, Ben, and Aarthi time travel to the Harlem Renaissance and the interwar modernist era. Shola offers up Richard Bruce Nugent as their current figure of fascination (or “transfixion” to use a key image from LOTE), and wonders what it would have been like to move through Harlem and London by Nugent's side. Recovering the stories of black writers and artists is essential to Shola's literary project. It is also inseparable from restoring queerness to the once hyper-masculine and “muscular” paradigm of modernism. In a stirring discussion of the aesthetic forms and moods of historical recovery, Ben and Shola sink into the “purpleness” of the fin-de-siècle and explore the critical power of black sensuousness. Talk of decadence, ornamentality, and frivolity shapes the latter half of this episode, and Doris Payne, the West Virginian jewel thief, emerges as an exquisitely improbable modernist heroine! Mentioned in this episode: -Richard Bruce Nugent -Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward, Porgy -E.M. Forster -David Levering Lewis, When Harlem was in Vogue -Saidiya Hartman -Benjamin Kahan, The Book of Minor Perverts -James Joyce, Ulysses -Willa Cather, “Paul's Case” -Ornamentality via Kant, Hegel, and Adolf Loos -Susan Sontag -Doris Payne – a.k.a “Diamond Doris” -Édouard Glissant Aarthi Vadde is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. Email: aarthi.vadde@duke.edu. John Plotz is Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative. Email: plotz@brandeis.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Shola von Reinhold is the author of LOTE, a novel about getting lost in the archives and finding what the archives have lost. LOTE won the 2021 James Tait Black prize so who better to join Shola on Novel Dialogue than Ben Bateman of Edinburgh University, lead judge of the prize committee? This conversation takes listeners back to all yesterday's parties as Shola, Ben, and Aarthi time travel to the Harlem Renaissance and the interwar modernist era. Shola offers up Richard Bruce Nugent as their current figure of fascination (or “transfixion” to use a key image from LOTE), and wonders what it would have been like to move through Harlem and London by Nugent's side. Recovering the stories of black writers and artists is essential to Shola's literary project. It is also inseparable from restoring queerness to the once hyper-masculine and “muscular” paradigm of modernism. In a stirring discussion of the aesthetic forms and moods of historical recovery, Ben and Shola sink into the “purpleness” of the fin-de-siècle and explore the critical power of black sensuousness. Talk of decadence, ornamentality, and frivolity shapes the latter half of this episode, and Doris Payne, the West Virginian jewel thief, emerges as an exquisitely improbable modernist heroine! Mentioned in this episode: -Richard Bruce Nugent -Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward, Porgy -E.M. Forster -David Levering Lewis, When Harlem was in Vogue -Saidiya Hartman -Benjamin Kahan, The Book of Minor Perverts -James Joyce, Ulysses -Willa Cather, “Paul's Case” -Ornamentality via Kant, Hegel, and Adolf Loos -Susan Sontag -Doris Payne – a.k.a “Diamond Doris” -Édouard Glissant Aarthi Vadde is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. Email: aarthi.vadde@duke.edu. John Plotz is Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative. Email: plotz@brandeis.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Shola von Reinhold is the author of LOTE, a novel about getting lost in the archives and finding what the archives have lost. LOTE won the 2021 James Tait Black prize so who better to join Shola on Novel Dialogue than Ben Bateman of Edinburgh University, lead judge of the prize committee? This conversation takes listeners back to all yesterday's parties as Shola, Ben, and Aarthi time travel to the Harlem Renaissance and the interwar modernist era. Shola offers up Richard Bruce Nugent as their current figure of fascination (or “transfixion” to use a key image from LOTE), and wonders what it would have been like to move through Harlem and London by Nugent's side. Recovering the stories of black writers and artists is essential to Shola's literary project. It is also inseparable from restoring queerness to the once hyper-masculine and “muscular” paradigm of modernism. In a stirring discussion of the aesthetic forms and moods of historical recovery, Ben and Shola sink into the “purpleness” of the fin-de-siècle and explore the critical power of black sensuousness. Talk of decadence, ornamentality, and frivolity shapes the latter half of this episode, and Doris Payne, the West Virginian jewel thief, emerges as an exquisitely improbable modernist heroine! Mentioned in this episode: -Richard Bruce Nugent -Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward, Porgy -E.M. Forster -David Levering Lewis, When Harlem was in Vogue -Saidiya Hartman -Benjamin Kahan, The Book of Minor Perverts -James Joyce, Ulysses -Willa Cather, “Paul's Case” -Ornamentality via Kant, Hegel, and Adolf Loos -Susan Sontag -Doris Payne – a.k.a “Diamond Doris” -Édouard Glissant Aarthi Vadde is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. Email: aarthi.vadde@duke.edu. John Plotz is Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative. Email: plotz@brandeis.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/lgbtq-studies

James Lundy's book, The History of the Poetry Society of South Carolina: 1920 to 2021, is a chronicle of the first 100 years of the oldest state poetry society in America, the Poetry Society of South Carolina. Founded in Charleston in 1920 by DuBose Heyward, John Bennett, Josephine Pinckney, Hervey Allen, and Laura Bragg, the Society's first 101 seasons run from the Jazz Age to the COVID era, where everyone from Carl Sandburg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Frost, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, Ogden Nash, Billy Collins, Sherwood Anderson, Jericho Brown, Thornton Wilder, Robert Pinsky, and hundreds of others appeared before the membership.Talking with Walter Edgar, Lundy, also currently the Society's president, gives us an insider's view, with insights into the inner workings and disfunctions of the organization and its slow progress from a Whites-only organization of the segregated South founded in the aftermath of World War I and the Spanish Flu Pandemic, through the Roaring Twenties, into the darkness of the Great Depression, World War II, a resurgence during the Atomic Age, the turbulent Sixties, the decline of Charleston, its rebound into a tourist mecca, and into the present day.

To mark the return of theatre to New York City, Michael revisits his private tour of Broadway with Audra McDonald, then delivering her Tony Award-winning performance in Porgy and Bess, and Tony Sheldon, who was starring in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.Also, we check in with the New York Times' chief theatre critic Jesse Green and preview next week's long-delayed Tony Awards, and we meet the man whose experiences informed Windmill Theatre Co's Amphibian, a play about a young Afghan's journey to Adelaide.

To mark the return of theatre to New York City, Michael revisits his private tour of Broadway with Audra McDonald, then delivering her Tony Award-winning performance in Porgy and Bess, and Tony Sheldon, who was starring in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Also, we check in with the New York Times' chief theatre critic Jesse Green and preview next week's long-delayed Tony Awards, and we meet the man whose experiences informed Windmill Theatre Co's Amphibian, a play about a young Afghan's journey to Adelaide.

To mark the return of theatre to New York City, Michael revisits his private tour of Broadway with Audra McDonald, then delivering her Tony Award-winning performance in Porgy and Bess, and Tony Sheldon, who was starring in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Also, we check in with the New York Times' chief theatre critic Jesse Green and preview next week's long-delayed Tony Awards, and we meet the man whose experiences informed Windmill Theatre Co's Amphibian, a play about a young Afghan's journey to Adelaide.

Why We Should Expose Our Kids To Classical Music https://ourtownlive.net #herbw79George Gershwin (/ˈɡɜːrʃ.wɪn/; born Jacob Bruskin Gershowitz, September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned both popular and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), the songs Swanee (1919) and Fascinating Rhythm (1924), the jazz standard I Got Rhythm (1930), and the opera Porgy and Bess (1935) which spawned the hit Summertime.Gershwin studied piano under Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin Goldmark, Henry Cowell, and Joseph Brody. He began his career as a song plugger but soon started composing Broadway theater works with his brother Ira Gershwin and with Buddy DeSylva. He moved to Paris intending to study with Nadia Boulanger, but she refused him. He subsequently composed An American in Paris, returned to New York City and wrote Porgy and Bess with Ira and DuBose Heyward. Initially a commercial failure, it came to be considered one of the most important American operas of the twentieth century and an American cultural classic.Gershwin moved to Hollywood and composed numerous film scores. He died in 1937 of a malignant brain tumor. His compositions have been adapted for use in film and television, with several becoming jazz standards recorded and covered in many variations.

Summertime (tiempo de verano) de George Gershwin con letra de DuBose Heyward fue compuesta para la ópera folk Porgy and Bess de 1935. Tardó en entrar en el mundo del jazz plenamente hasta 1942. Escuchemos , entre otras, las versiones de Billie Holiday, Armstrong/Ella, Artie Shaw, Dizzy, Parker, Erroll, Pepper y hasta la de Janis Joplin. Y una sorpresita para Abril.

 George Gershwin’s 1935 composition “Summertime” is probably the most frequently covered song in all the world. Some estimate that there have been at least 25,000 recorded versions, many of them classic jazz renditions, of course, but also in every other genre from disco to reggae. As the centerpiece of Gershwin’s opera “Porgy and Bess,” the song is built around a poem by DuBose Heyward, the author of  the novel on which the opera was based. But besides all these facts and figures, there’s some serious magic going on here, in that even after 85 years, “Summertime” still has fresh musical ideas to inspire, as Veezy Coffman so lovingly demonstrates here in a couple of choruses from last night’s rehearsal.

Gershwin’s Summertime is the most recorded song in historySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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David (@vinylophyle sur Instagram) vous raconte l'histoire de Summertime, de George Gershwin & DuBose Heyward (1934). Le premier enregistrement date du 19 juillet 1935 par Abbie Mitchell avec Gershwin au piano et à la direction d'orchestre. Vous entendrez ensuite des extraits des versions de Billie Holliday (1935), de Sidney Bechet (1939), de Miles David (1958), de Gene Vincent (1958), de Vince Taylor (1965), de Ten Years After (1968), de Sam Cooke (1957) et d'Al Green (1969). Big Brother & The Holding Company a publié l'album Cheap Thrills en 1968 sur lequel figure la célèbre version chantée par Janis Joplin. Enfin, le live de Mike Brant date de 1974. Le générique est une version de La Javanaise (Serge Gainsbourg) interprétée par Tony Feront. Retrouvez-nous sur chronicast.com et sur Twitter @ChronicastFr.

Find us at: iTunes Spotify Google Play Jen and Micah ofI Never Saw That join us this week for a somber and surprising discussion of musicians in the 27 Club. So many musicians have been taken from us too soon at the age of 27, leaving us with a legacy of great music that leave us wondering what could have been. It's shocking how many musicians passed away at that age; people know Hendrix, Morrison, Cobain, Winehouse, and at least one of our picks this week. But there's so many others that were under the radar or legends that also happened to leave us at that age. We look into four unique musicians and ask what could have been this week as we hash out a new #SongFight. Songs featured in this episode include: "Kind Hearted Woman Blues" written and performed by Robert Johnson. Recorded November 23, 1936; © 1998, 1961 Sony Music Entertainment Inc. "King of the Hill" written by D. Boon and performed by Minutemen with Crane on trumpet. © 1985 New Alliance Music, ℗ 1985 SST Records. "Summertime" written by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward, performed by Big Brother & The Holding Company (with Janis Joplin). ℗ 1968 Columbia Records, CBS Inc. "Cicatriz ESP" written by Comar A. Rodriguez-Lopez and performed by The Mars Volta. ©℗ 2003 The Mars Volta. "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To" written by Cole Porter, performed by Nina Simone. © 1960 Colpix Records. "The Punch Line" written by Mike Watt and performed by The Minutemen. © 1981 New Alliance Music, ℗ 1981 SST Records. Intro and outro music taken from "Run in the Night" by The Good Lawdz from their album A Lil Sumthin' Sumthin'. Licensed under an Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) license. To hear the full song or get more information, visit the song page at the Free Music Archive.

Abell was raised in the Philadelphia and Chicago areas.David sang in the 1971 world premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts with the Berkshire Boy Choir.Abell enrolled at Yale University, where his teachers included John Mauceri and Rob Kapilow. He studied with Nadia Boulanger and Robert D. 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Happy Valentine's Day, fellow Broadway Babies. Oh, Doctor Jesus, help us please this week. Alex and Daisha got plenty of somethin’ to say about this 2012 musical, which was adapted from an opera that was adapted from a play that was adapted from a book. Prepare thyself for our special V-Day episode on "The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess" (sry DuBose Heyward), starring Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis as the classic/problematic title characters. Join us in an intense discussion about the appropriateness of writing stories about communities and cultures you don’t belong to, the beautiful Gershwin/Heyward music and how harmful stereotypes about race and ethnicity are because they ain’t necessarily so. Podcast cover art: David Taylor Twitter: @bwaybabies Facebook: Facebook.com/broadwaybabiespodcast Cast recording: iTunes | Spotify | Amazon Prime Songs Summertime (performed by Nikki Renee Daniels) I Got Plenty of Nothing (by Norm Lewis and company) Bess, You Is My Woman Now (by Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis) My Man’s Gone Now (by Bryonha Marie Parham and company) Oh, Doctor Jesus (by Bryonha Marie Parham and company) It Ain’t Necessarily So (by David Alan Grier and company) Show Notes An in-depth NPR interview with Audra McDonald about all aspects of the production Stephen Sondheim's aforementioned letter to the New York Times criticizing — no, roasting — the Broadway revival and its female-led creative team. Audra responding to the criticism of the production. Look, what a helpful study guide about the history of the opera that I found Fantasia yassss — probably the first time a lot of younger folks heard "Summertime"  An interesting thinkpiece from HuffPost about whether white people can tell the stories of other cultures

For episode 3, we discuss Porgy and Bess, music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Dubose Heyward, libretto by Dubose Heyward. As usual, no familiarity with the show is required to enjoy the podcast, as we play ample audio clips and the plot isn't unexpected or interesting for you to worry about us spoiling you. Porgy and Bess rides the line between opera and musical, and has been performed as complete opera, complete Broadway musical, and every shade in between. We discuss the show, the Gershwin brothers, and we take a look at how criticism of the show's handling of race has changed in ways you might not expect. Apologies for Jeremy's worse microphone today and Hannah's audio getting wonky in the last ten minutes. Neither of those problems surface again in future episodes.  

August is Arts Appreciation Month! During August, Houston Public Media Arts and Culture is paying tribute to art forms that have inspired other art forms. We thought this Classical Classroom rerun fit with that theme perfectly, hence the rerunning. The remix has been alive as long as the Beastie Boys’ “License to Ill”. JK! It’s been around for as long as music. Learn how composers have been inspired by, paid tribute to, given tips of the hat to, and plain ripped off, each other since the very beginning. MusicLab intern, composer, drummer, and snappy dresser, Daniel Webbon tells all. Audio production by Todd “Sir Toddeus of Toddleton” Hulslander with serving suggestions by Dacia Clay. Music used in this episode includes: – Aerosmith and RUN-DMC “Walk This Way” (with an appearance by Missy Elliott) – Dies Irae: Gregorian Chant from the 13th century – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Twelve Variations on “Ah vous dirai-je, Maman”, K. 265/300e – Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 1 in D major – Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 8 in C minor (Op. 110) – George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward, “Bess, You Is My Woman Now” from the opera Porgy and Bess – Miles Davis and Gil Evans, “Bess, You Is My Woman Now” from the album Porgy and Bess – Luciano Berio, Sinfonia

August is Arts Appreciation Month! During August, Houston Public Media Arts and Culture is paying tribute to art forms that have inspired other art forms. We thought this Classical Classroom rerun fit with that theme perfectly, hence the rerunning. The remix has been alive as long as the Beastie Boys’ “License to Ill”. JK! It’s been around for as long as music. Learn how composers have been inspired by, paid tribute to, given tips of the hat to, and plain ripped off, each other since the very beginning. MusicLab intern, composer, drummer, and snappy dresser, Daniel Webbon tells all. Audio production by Todd “Sir Toddeus of Toddleton” Hulslander with serving suggestions by Dacia Clay. Music used in this episode includes: – Aerosmith and RUN-DMC “Walk This Way” (with an appearance by Missy Elliott) – Dies Irae: Gregorian Chant from the 13th century – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Twelve Variations on “Ah vous dirai-je, Maman”, K. 265/300e – Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 1 in D major – Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 8 in C minor (Op. 110) – George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward, “Bess, You Is My Woman Now” from the opera Porgy and Bess – Miles Davis and Gil Evans, “Bess, You Is My Woman Now” from the album Porgy and Bess – Luciano Berio, Sinfonia

College of Charleston School of the Arts invites the public to celebrate the first night of spring with music by vocal superstars, tenor Rodrick Dixon and soprano Alfreda Burke. "Awaken for the Arts" will take place on March 20, 2012 at 7 p.m. in the historic Dock Street Theatre (135 Church St). This benefit for the School of the Arts will also include a performance of a composition by College of Charleston music professor Edward Hart and other acclaimed music faculty will join Dixon and Burke on stage throughout the evening. The event is open to the public, but tickets are required. "Awaken for the Arts" will feature performances ranging from the quintessential works of Puccini and Verdi to the finger-snapping show tunes of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber and others. The night will also include some local flavor in a revival of popular songs from DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess." Peter and Cynnie Kellogg are the event's presenting sponsors and the event is chaired by Joe Riley III. Dixon and Burke are generously donating their time for "Awaken for the Arts." Charitable sponsors include MWV, TD Bank, and many others listed online: http://go.cofc.edu/awaken.

The culminating genius of George and Ira Gershwin came together with DuBose Heyward to create one of the great miracles of the musical stage.