The Best Versions of the Music from Porgy and Bess
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Jaya Nicely Oddly enough, Porgy and Bess is considered by many to be America`s only authentic opera. This is odd because the opera, which was adapted by Ira Gershwin from the novel Porgy, and composed by George Gershwin, is about the descendants of black African slaves. They live in a slum in Charleston, South Carolina, in the first quarter of the 20th century. They struggle to barely survive. They are uneducated and superstitious. The slum`s bad guy is a drug dealer...