Summertime from "Porgy & Bess"
George Gershwin
| Product ID | SON00000338 |
| Composer | George Gershwin |
| Arranger | Sjef Ipskamp |
| Duration | 02:53 min |
| Genre | Opera/operetta |
| Instrumentation | Concert band, Concert band with soloist |
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Summertime from "Porgy & Bess"
| SKU | SON00000338 |
| Composer | George Gershwin |
| Arranger | Sjef Ipskamp |
| Genre | Opera/operetta |
| Instrumentation | Concert band Concert band with soloist |
| Free description | The famous song from Gershwin's opera "Porgy & Bess" |
| Grade | 3 |
| Duration | 02:53 min |
| Year | 1935 |
Program Notes
The famous song from Gershwin's opera "Porgy & Bess"
"Summertime" is an aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The song soon became a popular and much-recorded jazz standard, described as "without doubt ... one of the finest songs the composer ever wrote ... Gershwin's highly evocative writing brilliantly mixes elements of jazz and the song styles of African Americans in the southeast United States from the early twentieth century".