1935 GERSHWIN PORGY & BESS CREATOR Todd Duncan Anne Brown RARE Decca VOL II 78

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THIS IS THE VERY RARE 10" VOLUME II of the CREATOR RECORDINGS of GERSWIN's PORGY AND BESS.

This is the first time in my collecting carreer that I have seen this elusive album

The ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING of North Americas FIRST OPERA - GERSHWIN's PROGY AND BESS: TODD DUNCAN, the first PORGY and ANNE BROWN, the first BESS of the 1935 Production of GEORGE GERSHWINS PORGY AND BESS sings

Duncan Brown: I loves you porgy/Avon Long & Brown: There's a boat dat's leavin soon for new york

Edward Matthews w Harriet Lackson & Eve Jesseye Choir: A woman is a sometime thing/Edward Matthews It take a long pull to get there

Duncan Brown: What you want wid Bess/ 1. Helen Dowdy: Strawberry Woman's Call, 2. William Woolfolk: Crabman's Call

Decca 3x 10" 78 rpm record with original album, booklet and lavish production photographs

Condition:

EXCELLENT, I loves you porgy/ There's a boat has faint hint of greying ,Album great covers lightly rubbed, some roughing of bottom edge

The Theater Guild, which had staged the play Heyward and his wife fashioned from his book, agreed to produce the opera as well. Rouben Mamoulian was engaged to produce it, Alexander Smallens to conduct it, and baritone Todd Duncan (described by Gershwin as "a colored Lawrence Tibbett") was discovered and signed to create Porgy. His Bess was another newcomer, soprano Anne Brown.

There were tryouts in Boston before proceeding to New York, and here the first of a number of unfortunate cuts were made to trim "Porgy" down to Broadway size, including the opening "Jazzbo Brown" sequence, the "Buzzard Song" and the wrenching lament in the finale, "Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?" The pared-down opera opened in Boston on September 30, 1935, to audience and critical acclaim. "Gershwin's most important contribution to music," said the Christian Science Monitor. "Gershwin must now be accepted as a serious composer," noted the Boston Transcript. The New York opening followed on Oct. 10. The Manhattan audience was just as enthusiastic, but the New York press was not. Thus began the great "Porgy" debate. The critics were unable to accept the piece as an opera. They were upset by what they perceived as a disturbing and unconventional blend of musical comedy and opera. "Porgy," however, lasted 124 performances.

Although the best tunes from "Porgy and Bess," such as "Summertime" and "Ain't Necessarily So," continued to be loved and sung, the opera as a whole went into an eclipse. When it was revived in the 1940s on Broadway, it was in a two-act version with spoken dialogue and further cuts. The world was still not ready to accept "Porgy" for what it was -- grand opera. Beyond this, further acceptance was delayed because many blacks in their struggle for equal rights during the 1950s and 1960s were offended by the portrayal of their race presented in "Porgy."

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