As screen entertainment, Porgy and Bess retains most of the virtues and ... may irritate loyal followers of Gershwin who notice such matters. 1959: Best Scoring of a Musical.
In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with ... her shelter is the crippled Porgy. Their relationship is ...
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