Summertime

...current informed the set list, which was composed exclusively of songs from the latest CD with the exception of an impromptu (and solo) "Summertime" and Coltrane's "Resolution" from "A Love Supreme" (Impulse!, 1964). The tunes from the new...

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...unfamiliar with the huge talent of what outside Cairo is Africa's only opera ensemble. The atmosphere was set immediately with a radiant Summertime from Pretty Yende as Clara, while in the background the chorus romped around as lively as...

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...beautifully sung Bess finds different vocal colours to match her succession of lovers. Yet it is Pretty Yende's Clara whose glorious Summertime sets a standard by which the others must be judged, with Victor Ryan Robertson bringing a...

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...diction the least of their virtues. Pretty Yunde set a high standard by opening the show with a generously phrased version of Clara's Summertime. Victor Ryan Robertson was a spry Sportin' Life, and Xolela Sixaba made an amiable Porgy,...

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...songs from Porgy and Bess may bring back memories of a favourite American basso profundo - Paul Robeson - singing songs like Summertime and It Ain't Necessarily So. Robeson's lifelong political and cultural links with Wales are the stuff...

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...soulful version of the Cuban standard Chan Chan" while Diabat, (with Habib Koit & Bamada) gives an African twist to George Gershwin's Summertime." The album also features outstanding tracks by Cameroonian singer Blick Bassy, jazz fusion...

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...production is a very different animal, a particularly political take on George Gershwin's score, which features the hit song Summertime, and DuBose Heyward's libretto which is based on his own 1925 novel and 1927 play, Porgy. Porgy And...

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...for a few days each, at the end of October. Although just about everybody is familiar with the musical's great songs-such as "Summertime" and "It Ain't Necessarily So"-the Gershwin estate's insistence on all-black casts has meant that...

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...the Cape Town Opera has regaled Europe with its take on the 1935 American opera classic with its treasure trove of tunes including "Summertime," "Red Headed Woman" and "It Ain't Necessarily So". But the all-new production, having its...

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...I've ever worked on," he added. Gershwin's songbook included classic melodies such as Someone to Watch Over Me, Rhapsody in Blue and Summertime. His brother Ira provided the lyrics. New musical chapter Wilson said: "I've always loved...

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