George Gershwin – Porgy and Bess
Posted in Inscribed Books, Signed Books on Oct 27th, 2008
“One of these mornin’s you’s gonna rise up singin’.” George Gershwin had wanted to write an opera about the African-American experience long before he read DuBose Heyward’s novel Porgy in 1926. But in Heyward’s portrayal of life on “Catfish Row”—based on the very real Cabbage Row in Heyward’s hometown of Charleston—Gershwin recognized his material. He [...]