Video Recording of 03/18/2025 Class
George Gershwin and Porgy and Bess with Special Guest David Rosen
LINKS FOR PORGY AND BESS
1924
"Rhapsody in Blue", from the beginning of Manhattan (Woody Allen)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehGeCSKx_go 0:00-0:36
"Rhapsody in Blue" from the 1945 film Rhapsody in Blue, Paul Whiteman Band
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILaEhPrUWhU 0:00-1:40
"Lady Be Good" by Benny Goodman Trio
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2IxI1qtIZc 0:00-1:05
THE EDUCATION OF GEORGE GERSHWIN
Max Rosen and Isaiah Seligman
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1ZUmVpNQYg 0:00-0:51
Felix Arndt, "Desecration Rag No. 1"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-ElGIhcr_U 0:00-0:49
George Gershwin Ragging the "Traumerei"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFTej8JuM2M 0:00-0:49
THE JAZZ OPERA
Igor Stravinsky, "Ragtime for Eleven Instruments"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSnAP3QeNt4 0:00-1:15
Maurice Ravel, "Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano" (Augustin Hadelich and Orion Weiss)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y52yeldpLQA 0:00-1:18
George Gershwin Buddy da Sylva, "Blue Monday"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0wifK4ptvo 0:00-1:38
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcecJ1MrX2Y 0:00-0:42
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROpLyQ996eQ 0:00-1:02
Gershwin, "Delicious" (Rhapsody for Rivets)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIITcxIWuSU 0:00-1:30
Aaron Copland, "Vitebsk"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U01UhNySalY 0:00-2:00
Jules Bledsoe, "Ol Man River" from Showboat (1929)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N_Qs6v1WGs 0:00-0:55
Louis Gruenberg, from Emperor Jones, "Standing in the Need of Prayer" (Lawrence Tibbett singing)
https://youtu.be/BQgE-P_d3Qs?si=7khfeMlAXQDKW0vm 0:00-1:40
PREPARATION OF PORGY AND BESS
Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers, "Throw Me Anywhere Lord" (In that Old Field)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXisXm9240U 0:00-1:08
Todd Duncan, from Schubert's "Erklonig"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQTwN2XhJfU 0:00-1:00
Ann Brown, "Summertime" from Rhapsody in Blue film, 1945
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exs_I5UeyWg 0:00-0:21
Buck & Bubbles, "The Rhythm's OK in Harlem," 1937
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyJXbCFmJTs 0:00-1:19
John W. Bubbles discusses and performs music from Porgy and Bess
www.youtube.com/watch?v=goZHVqhQpW8 0:00-1:10
PORGY AND BESS
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzQW7ywjFNU&t=10063s 3:03:33
(Entire opera, Trevor Nunn/BBC production)
Unless noted, excerpts from Porgy and Bess are from this video
ACT I
Scene 1
Jasbo Brown
www.youtube.com/watch?v=etKJefYTZtk 0:00-4:00
"Summertime"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApgFsBjCuA8 0:00-1:30
"Summertime," Ann Brown, from 1945 Movie Rhapsody in Blue (longer version)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHIO2oz0ccA 0:00-1:07
"Summertime"/"Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" Mahalia Jackson
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4aStSMIx8w 0:00-2:12
"Honeyman"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG-_0_3Gsfw 0:00-1:30
"Strawberries"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WbQBt07vgY 0:00-1:35
"Crabs"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_lvVVksryk 0:00-0:36
Porgy entrance and motif
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NcPu0rudUE 0:00-0:40
Andrew Kohler on motifs in Porgy and Bess
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHBOCw3_aQI 0:00-3:50
"They Pass by Singing"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K4AIpU4DMk 0:00-1:37
Dice before fight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2vmNV7aHE4 0:00-1:10
Fight music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcC1A2rbkls 0:00-2:20
Scene 2
"Where is Brother Robbins? Gone, gone, gone…."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTM2Divk3Rk 0:00-1:44
Dialogue
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw6OI85m7QU 0:00-3:11
"My Man's Gone Now"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN8xFoa9kDg 0:00-3:38
"Leavin for the Promised Land"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qASiznwZ6rs 0:00-0:55
ACT II
Scene 1
Blackfish Banks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s4OueqQhNs 0:00-3:30
"I Got Plenty of Nuttin" (Todd Duncan, 1940 recording)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCN-XxZ64cY
0:00-1:05
"Bess, You Is My Woman Now"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmQqbg1-8aI 0:00-5:33
Scene 2
"I Can't Sit Down"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ouvo2HqXg14 0:00-0:25
"It Ain't Necessarily So"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfIaPtHS_Cc 0:00-3:04
"It Ain't Necessarily So" (John Bubbles)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7MNuYHIkTM 0:00-1:39
"It Ain't Necessarily So" (Cab Calloway)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d3ey_waog4 0:00-1:25
Scene 3
Bess's Mad Scene
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwvdARrIU1E 0:00-0:30
"O Doctor Jesus"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeHV90LD7io 0:00-2:07
Dialogue and beginning of "I Loves You Porgy"
Leontyne Price "I Loves You Porgy"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTl_5ga4fSc 0:00-1:30
Billie Holiday "I Loves You Porgy"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt7utJ05dWY 0:00-1:08
Nina Simone "I Loves You Porgy"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v34KzNZ7NB4 0:00-2:00
Scene 4
O Doctor Jesus Reprise"; Hurricane Begins
www.youtube.com/watch?v=68X98HSqi0U 0:00-6:10
Dialogue
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ99FJCddPA 0:00-0:21
Reprise of "Summertime"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEq0_EyfyDs 0:00-1:34
Crown Comes In
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwSQ6i7jyxU 0:00-1:41
Crown and Bess
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v81jOL_TFqI 0:00-0:46
"A Red Headed Woman"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaQr-DG4VCg 0:00-0:37
Crown into the Hurricane
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyKO2gAgA_4 0:00-2:00
ACT III
Scene 1
"Jesus Is Walking on the Waters"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXhcoW_68AQ 0:00-1:27
Scene 2
Sportin Life Interrupts
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZbZMfAZtPk 0:00-0:31
"There's A Boat That's Leavin Soon for New York"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lm5N_EnJ_o 0:00-1:15
John Bubbles "There's A Boat Leavin' Soon for New York"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AxUdMtGqtQ 0:00-1:57
Scene 3
"I'm On My Way"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3PSeS-RtX4 0:00-1:24
Questions and Additional Information
Please reach out to Instructor Margie Satinsky with questions and requests for additional information. Contact information is: (919) 383-5998 (home/work), or (919) 812-2235 (cell/text), or margiesatinsky@icloud.com.