Bess you is my woman George Gershwin / Arr. Roger Niese

Titel / Title: Bess you is my woman - from the Opera Porgy and Bess
Herausgeber / Publisher: Baton Music
Instrumentation: Soprano, Bass-Baritone and Symphonic Band
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Porgy and bess is an opera with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Heyward. It is bades on Heyward's novel Porgy and the play of the same name that he co-wrote with his wife Dorothy. All three works deal with African American life in the ficitious Catfish Row in Charleston, South Carolina in the early 1930s.
Originally conceived by Gershwin as an American Folk Opera, the work was first performed in the fall of 1935, but was not widely accepted in the UNited States as a legitimate opera until the late 1970s and '80s: it is now considered part of the standard operatic repertoire.
Porgy and Bess is also regularly performed internationally. Despite this success, the opera has been controversial: some from the outset have considered it recist.

The opera is admired for Gershwin's innovative synthesis of European orchestral techniques whith American jazz and folk music idioms.
Porgy and Bess tells the story of Porgy, a crippled black man living in the slums of Charleston, South Carolina, and his attemts to rescue Bess from the clutches of Crown, her pimp, and Sportin' Life, the drug dealer.
The opera contains many songs that have become popular in their own right, becoming standards in jazz and blues in addition to their original operatic setting. One of those is the lovesong Bess you is my woman sung by Porgy and bess in the second act of the opera.

soprano, bass-baritone and symphonic band
Titel / Title: Bess you is my woman
Untertitel / Subtitle: from the Opera Porgy and Bess
Herausgeber / Publisher: Baton Music
Instrumentation: soprano, bass-baritone and concert band
Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen
Serie / Series: Baton Music vocal series
from the Opera Porgy and Bess

Gershwin's opera 'Porgy and Bess contains many songs that have become popular in their own right, becoming standards in jazz and blues in addition to their original operatic setting. One of those is the lovesong Bess you is my woman sung by Porgy and Bess in the second act of the Opera.