#OTD #TDIH #February28, 1943: #Premieres: The #opera #PorgyAndBess by #GeorgeGershwin #DuBoseHeyward and #IraGershwin, opens on #Broadway w/the largest all #AfricanAmerican cast ever seen on #Americanstage. #Theatre #MusicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T25...

"Compassionate the mountains rise
Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes
That, having looked on life time out of mind,
Know that the simple gift of being kind
Is greater than all the wisdom of the wise."

✒ #DuBoseHeyward, American author (Porgy), was #BOTD 31 August 1885. #Literature

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #Breakfast

George Gershwin, Oscar Peterson, Ira Gershwin & DuBose Heyward:
🎵 Summertime

#BBCRadio3 #GeorgeGershwin #OscarPeterson #IraGershwin #DuBoseHeyward

"Summertime" is an #aria composed in 1934 by #GeorgeGershwin for the 1935 #opera #PorgyAndBess. The lyrics are by #DuBoseHeyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, and #IraGershwin. The song soon became a popular and much-recorded #jazzStandard.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #EssentialClassics

George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, Miles Davis, Gil Evans & Gil Evans:
🎵 Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus) from Porgy and Bess

#BBCRadio3 #GeorgeGershwin #IraGershwin #DuBoseHeyward #MilesDavis #GilEvans

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #BBCProms

George Gershwin, Randall Goosby, Zhu Wang, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward & Dorothy Heyward:
🎵 Porgy and Bess: Bess, You Is My Woman Now

#BBCRadio3 #GeorgeGershwin #RandallGoosby #ZhuWang #IraGershwin #DuBoseHeyward #DorothyHeyward

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #BBCProms

George Gershwin, Randall Goosby, Zhu Wang, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward & Dorothy Heyward:
🎵 Porgy and Bess: It Ain't Necessarily So

#BBCRadio3 #GeorgeGershwin #RandallGoosby #ZhuWang #IraGershwin #DuBoseHeyward #DorothyHeyward

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #BBCProms

George Gershwin, Randall Goosby, Zhu Wang, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward & Dorothy Heyward:
🎵 Porgy and Bess: Summertime

#BBCRadio3 #GeorgeGershwin #RandallGoosby #ZhuWang #IraGershwin #DuBoseHeyward #DorothyHeyward

Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes celebrates the timeless values of equality, hard work, and patient ambition.
Gift a book: www.aycaramba.us/product-page...

#bookswelove #freeshipping #picturebooks #aycarambabooks #DuBoseHeyward #countrybunny #easter #givebooks #shopsmall #givetheclassics

Cabbage Row (immortalized as "Catfish Row" in "Porgy and Bess") in the historic core of Charleston, South Carolina. #PorgyAndBess #GeorgeGershwin #DuBoseHeyward #photography #SouthCarolina

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #InTune

George Gershwin, Aron Goldin, DuBose Heyward & Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha:
🎵 Porgy & Bess; Summertime

#BBCRadio3 #GeorgeGershwin #AronGoldin #DuBoseHeyward #MasabaneCeciliaRangwanasha

#OTD #TDIH #February28, 1943: #Premieres: The #opera #PorgyAndBess by #GeorgeGershwin #DuBoseHeyward and #IraGershwin, opens on #Broadway w/the largest all #AfricanAmerican cast ever seen on #Americanstage. #Theatre
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T25...

#OTD #TDIH #February28, 1943: #Premieres: The #opera #PorgyAndBess by #GeorgeGershwin #DuBoseHeyward and #IraGershwin, opens on #Broadway w/the largest all #AfricanAmerican cast ever seen on #Americanstage. #Theatre
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7cr...

DuBose Heyward

"Porgy & Bess"

#DuBoseHeyward was born in Charleston #OnThisDay in 1885; his novel "Porgy" that was the basis for #GeorgeGershwin's "Porgy & Bess"; here's the 1959 film with Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Daniels, Sammy Davis, Jr. & Pearly Bailey:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un5q...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuBose_...