Opera excerpts. "Also available [as a] complete recording, a 3-CD set"--Insert. Compact disc. Program notes by Robert Kimball and synopsis (15 p. : ports.) inserted in container. Clamma Dale, Wilma Shakesnider, Betty Lane, sopranos ; Carol Brice, contralto ; Larry Marshall, tenor ; Donnie Ray Albert, Andrew Smith, Alexander B. Smalls, baritones ; with supporting singers ; Houston Grand Opera ; John DeMain, conductor. Recorded Nov. 22-24, 1976, in RCA Studio A, New York City.
Contents:
Introduction and Summertime -- A woman is a sometime thing -- Where is Brudder Robbins? ; Gone, gone, gone ; Overflow -- My man's gone now -- Leavin' for the promise' lan' -- I got plenty o' nuttin' -- Bess, you is my woman -- Oh, I can't sit down ; I got plenty o' nuttin' (reprise) -- It ain't necessarily so -- It's like dis, Crown ; What you want wid Bess? -- I loves you, Porgy -- There's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York -- Oh Bess ; Oh, where's my Bess ; Oh Lawd, I'm on my way.
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