"Porgy and Bess"

Fresh Air (NPR) | September 8, 1998| | Copyright

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TERRY GROSS, HOST: This month marks the centennial of George Gershwin' s birth. Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has a review of two noteworthy releases of music from Gershwin's most ambitious work, "Porgy and Bess." LLOYD SCHWARTZ, CLASSICAL MUSIC CRITIC: After " Porgy and Bess" opened in 1935, it took 16 years to get a complete recording. In 1951, Columbia Records' Goddard Lieberson, who would become responsible for his company's extraordinary series of Broadway original cast albums, produced it with care and originality. It was one of the ...

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