Gershwin, George: Porgy and Bess

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His most famous compositions are Rhapsody in Blue and Concerto in F . Gershwin hit on the idea of writing Porgy and Bess after reading the novel Porgy by DuBose Hewyard. In the summer of 1935 Gershwin, his brother Ira, DuBose Hewyard and his wife wrote that three-act opera. During Gershwin s lifetime it was not very successful. It was ...