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George Gershwin, composer
Robert Russell Bennett, arranger
Porgy and Bess Selections contains seven songs from Gershwin’s
folk opera, Porgy and Bess, which climaxed Gershwin’s spectacular
career.
Porgy and Bess has been criticized as being between serious opera and
musical comedy, but the beauty of the music and the expressive content which
is so right for the occasion, has an immediate and complete appeal.
This arrangement by Robert Russell Bennett includes:
“Summertime,”
“A Woman Is a Sometime Thing,”
“I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin,”
“Bess, You Is My Woman Now,”
“It Ain’t Necessarily So,”
“Picnic Parade,” and
“Oh Lawd, I’m on My Way.”
Band Music Notes
George Gershwin’s folk opera Porgy and Bess was first performed
by the Theater Guild in Boston and New York in 1935 and its revival in 1942
enjoyed the longest run of any revival in Broadway musical history at that
time.
Selections from Porgy and Bess for Concert Band was arranged by master
musical theater arranger and American composer Robert Russell Bennett.
Bennett is credited with creating the “Broadway sound” recognized
throughout the world, orchestrating over 200 Broadway shows spanning three
decades.
JRO
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