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Porgy and Bess opera in three acts

Title: Porgy and Bess [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by George Gershwin ; libretto by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin, based on the play by Dorothy and DuBose Heyward.
Author: Gershwin, George, 1898-1937

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Description

3 sound cassettes (235 min.) : stereo, Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 23, 1985]

Uniform Title

Porgy and Bess
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Porgy and Bess

Subjects

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Sung in English.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:38:41 (synopses and features) ; 3:16:32 (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (4 p.) on file in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 23, 1985.

Reproduction (note)

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 471 (F)

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Peter Allen) ; Opera news on the air (Robert Jacobson, host, with Frances Gershwin Gowdovsky) ; Synopsis of act 2 (Allen) ; Texaco's opera quiz (Edward Downes, host, with Alfred Hubay, Robert Jacobson and David Reuben) ; Synopsis of act 3 (Allen) -- side 2. Act 1 through "Oh little stars" -- side 3. Act 1 concluded -- side 4. Act 2 through "It ain't necessarily so" -- side 5. Act 2 concluded -- side 6. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Allen).

Call Number

*LTCM 471 (f)

OCLC

NYPG91-R207

Author

Gershwin, George, 1898-1937.

Title

Porgy and Bess [sound recording] : opera in three acts / music by George Gershwin ; libretto by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin, based on the play by Dorothy and DuBose Heyward.

Playing Time

003841 031632

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Mar. 23, 1985]

Performer

Joseph Joubert (Jasbo Brown) ; Marvis Martin (Clara) ; David Arnold (Jake) ; John A. Freeman-McDaniels (Mingo) ; Charles Williams (Sportin'Life) ; Barbara Conrad (Maria) ; Florence Quivar (Serena) ; Donald Osbourne (Robbins) ; Michael Smartt (Jim) ; Mervin Wallace (Peter) ; Priscilla Baskerville (Lily) ; Clinton Chinyelu Ingram (Scipio) ; Simon Estes (Porgy) ; Gregg Baker (Crown) ; Roberta Alexander (Bess) ; Larry Storch (Detective) ; Andrew Murphy (Policeman) ; Milton B. Grayson Jr. (Undertaker) ; John D. Anthony (Frazier) ; Osie Hawkins (Mr. Archdale) ; Isola Jones (Strawberry woman) ; Jay Aubrey Jones (Crabman) ; Hansford Rowe (Coroner) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor ; Peter Allen, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 49, no. 13 (Mar. 16, 1985).

Event

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 23, 1985.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL in Mar. 1991, from borrowed masters (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ; 10 in.) lent by the Metropolitan Opera.

Reproduction

Service copy (3 sound cassettes : stereo, Dolby-B processed) available in: *LTCM 471 (F)

Added Author

Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983. Librettist

Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940. Librettist

Heyward, Dorothy, 1890-1961. Porgy and Bess.

Joubert, Joseph, 1958- Performer

Martin, Marvis. Performer

Arnold, David. Performer

Freeman-McDaniels, John A. Performer

Williams, Charles. Performer

Conrad, Barbara Smith, 1937-2017, singer.

Quivar, Florence. Performer

Osbourne, Donald. Performer

Smartt, Michael. Performer

Wallace, Mervin. Performer

Baskerville, Priscilla. Performer

Ingrem, Clinton Chinyelu. Performer

Estes, Simon. Performer

Baker, Gregg. Performer

Alexander, Roberta. Performer

Storch, Larry. Performer

Murphy, Andrew. Performer

Grayson, Milton B., Jr. Performer

Anthony, John D. Performer

Hawkins, Osie. Performer

Jones, Isola. Performer

Jones, Jay Aubrey, singer.

Rowe, Hansford. Performer

Levine, James, 1943-2021. Conductor

Allen, Peter, 1920-2016. Commentator

Jacobson, Robert M. Commentator

Gowdovsky, Frances Gershwin. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911-2001, commentator.

Hubay, Alfred. Commentator

Reuben, David. Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 471 (f) \(Production notes in listening room.)

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