George Gershwin

...opera, Four Saints in Three Acts, produced as a Broadway theatre work. In 1935, George Gershwin chose her as his music director for his opera Porgy and Bess. In 1927 Jessye published My Spirituals, a collection of arrangements of...

In this article: Eva Jessye, Four Saints in Three Acts, University of Michigan, New York, Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, Porgy and Bess, and Baltimore

...Virgil Thomson and writer Gertrude Stein on Four Saints in Three Acts. She was selected by George Gershwin as his choral director for his opera Porgy and Bess. Moten Barnett made "Bess" of Porgy and Bess a signature role after performing...

In this article: Western University, Kansas, Eva Jessye, Civil War, Virgil Thomson, Nora Douglas Holt, and Etta Moten Barnett

Four Saints in Three Acts is an opera by United States composer Virgil Thomson ... first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose ...

... George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, which premiered October 10, 1935, after Four ... The point is that Four Saints in Three Acts will continue to influence ...

... Stein-Virgil Thompson's Four Saints in Three Acts, Graz Opera in Austria, ... Thompson opera, Four Saints in Three Acts on Nonesuch Digital, George Gershwin's ...

Scarce autographed 8x10 Rembrandt double-weight and blind ... George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" as well as Virgil Thompson's "Four Saints in Three Acts. ...

George Gershwin. Philip Glass. Frederick G. Gleason. Louis ... "Once in a while" from Four Saints in Three Acts "What what is it" from The Mother of Us All ...

... of the Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein opera Four Saints in Three Acts. In 1935, she was selected by George Gershwin to be choral director for the ...

... first professional appearance, in Four Saints in Three Acts by Virgil Thomson. Later that year, she sang Bess in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. ...