"On my way"
Subtitle: the untold story of Rouben Mamoulian, George Gershwin, and Porgy and Bess
By: Joseph Horowitz
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780393240139
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: A former New York Times music critic and award-winning author describes the contributions of the stage and film master director to Gershwin's classic American folk opera that originally premiered in 1935.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue. Mamoulian, Gershwin, and cultural fluidity; title: Enter Porgy; title: Experiments in musical theater; title: Porgy and Bess; title: Porgy and Bess and Hollywood; title: Appendices. A. Porgy : "Symphony of noises" by Rouben Mamoulian; title: B. Synopsis of Porgy and Bess; title: C. Four versions of the ending. Dubose Heyward's novella Porgy (1925) ; The published script for Porgy, by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward (1927) ; Porgy script as amended in Rouben Mamoulian's hand (1927) ; Porgy and Bess (1935) by George Gershwin (music), Dubose Heyward (libretto), and Heyward with Ira Gershwin (lyrics).