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Events for December 9, 2025
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. Since then “Porgy and Bess” has taken its place as a beloved and revered opera on the world’s great stages, occupying a unique role in […]