The DuPage Symphony Orchestra and Maestra Barbara Schubert prepared a concert program called "American Spirituals & American Jazz" featuring the music of George Gershwin and William Grant Still.
Porgy and Bess classic celebrates the legacy of Anne Brown and Black History Month.
Watch the premiere of Women of Color on Broadway, Inc. s âSummertimeâ music video in honor of Black History Month, sponsored by MAC Cosmetics, above. Todd Duncan and Anne Brown in
Porgy and Bess
âSummertime,â with its unforgettable soaring melody, immediately launches audiences into the world of George and Ira Gershwinâs
Porgy and Bess. The opera-musical, which premiered on October 10, 1935 at Alvin Theatre, follows the lives of the titular characters and other residents of the all-Black neighborhood of Catfish Row in Charleston, South Carolina. Both Ira Gershwin and the author of the original 1925 novel DuBose Heyward (who also was a co-writer of the 1927 play adaptation with Dorothy Heyward) wrote