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Roundtable by the 92nd Street Y: The Revolutionary George Gershwin, Lecture 3 – “I never felt more alive…than when working on Porgy and Bess”
https://www.roundtable.org/live-courses/music/the-revolutionary-george-gershwin-a-composer-beyond-boundaries DuBose Heyward’s novel “Porgy” inspired Gershwin to compose what he felt profoundly to be his finest achievement, consuming him to near exhaustion right up to its opening in 1935. […]