Porgy & Bess made a lot of critics forget their segregationist views. It's timely even today. Gershwin had a real touch of life & was able to express it so beautifully. george traganos
I remeber seeing the original movie back in the late 50's and have never seen the original film sense. it reminds me of growing up in Atlanta,ga. my old community was close nit. although it was segregated back then, I had some fun memmories of life. if anyone from Atlanta can remember the old 4th ward/butter milk bottom cumminty,it was a slum, however it was clean. every one tried thier best to rise above from where we lived. it was hard times,but I made it out.
Gorgeous. Another one where the music and lyrics are amazing. I don't know which one I love more, "Summertime" or "It Ain't Necessarily So." "He made his home in, that fish's ab-do-men."
🤣 my fav line too. But I also love the line... Methuselah lived 900 yrs. But who who calls that livin when no gal will give in to no man what's 900 yrs.
If the audience was Polish, exposed to Gershwin's music, Dubose Heyward and Ira Gershwin's lyrics, an all black cast, possibly for the first time, that might explain the lukewarm applause for this FABULOUS performance!!!!! Quite a change from European opera. Thanks for this awesome video and the name of the lead singer! Will check him out more!
Actually we taped the play on the dress rehearsal, so there weren't many spectators. Only dozens invited guests, so the applause is moderate. Next three days the opera was full, and they got standing ovations, but without the cameras.
Do any of you understand why the Gershwin play and music scores, including the movie are performed in Europe and NOT in the US and NEVER will be? Think hard, geniuses. I"ll wait!! 🤔
I LOVE Porgy and Bess. This song is entertaining to listen to--I love to listen to it. But, let me be realistic------------ am I willing to bet my everlasting soul on what is preached in this song?
That begs so many questions it's hard to know where to begin, but how about this: What if there is a God, but S/He rewards critical thinking, not gullability, and all the skeptics will go to heaven, and all the believers face eternal torment?
Went to look for this in itunes - found so many covers, some very different - I was looking for guy Lomardo's version - I have it on vinyl already. Love the "rhyming" - makes a lot of the modern rap look pretty naive. Gershwin did not use an online rhyming dictionary.
???? I love tthat Materiel since I was very young?? I started to realll!!!!!!!!!!!!!! love it since staring school????????by nine or what so ththat means i was round about six????? but to be true I`ve noticed it me?? I am missingg the heart?
Cab Calloway does a much better rendition of "It Ain't Necessarily So." After all, George and Ira Gershwin had Cab Calloway in mind when they composed the music and lyrics of that marvelous song.
while i respect your opinion and enjoy cab, of the era, i believe the vocals of Paul Robson on It Ain't Necessarily So is better even though Robson's enunciation isn't proper. i've seen many versions of this entire libretto, Porgy & Bess being my favorite, but i must say i believe i prefer Reggie Whitehead's interpretation above all, even over more noted singers.
I'm doin' a parody version of this tune, entitled "It Is Most Probably Quite So," . The Lilies Of The Field spin nitrogen, water and carbon, they toil day & night.
My gosh Sporting Life is literally shaking hands and kissing babies! He's totally legit! I completely trust him!😉😆😎 He's like that annoying friend that you don't want around because you're pretty sure he will pawn a watch or an antique .... probably yours for money
@LauraBrandwood Ever heard of a 2nd tenor? The tenors that sing the higher male notes, but can also reach into a deeper range than a normal tenor? Maybe I should have written, Tenor/Baritone. My bad.
In today's Poland, most people under 40 know English. However, the question is whether they understand ebonics (or Ira Gershwin's idea of ebonics, that is.)
sorry you all.Nobody surpasses Avon Long from the original cast.Maybe Sammy Davies jr.I should know.Have heard P&B all my 76 years! My mother was the fist Bess.
This rendition was creepy he's supposed to be a preacher not some freak dancing around this is a great scene but don't fuck it up with bad directing honestly this opera is one of the greatest pieces of American art ever created and it's about the tragedy and hardship of blacks right after slavery it's a very serious opera not a funny musical. Having said that the scene was otherwise great, good casting, singing and production design.
bing's wig Crosby ... you know that was in there. Cab Calloway did it and that man can dance. Second, he was mocking a preacher what preacher is name sportin’ life. So yeah.
Porgy & Bess made a lot of critics forget their segregationist views. It's timely even today. Gershwin had a real touch of life & was able to express it so beautifully. george traganos
Those voices are amazing. You could practically swim in them they're so rich!
The tune is from a Jewish blessing
@@mrobinson784, what's the rest of the blessing please?
@@zonagale1144I want to know too!
Edit: I cannot type. lol
One of my favorite moments in opera. I can not describe how much I love it !
Probably my favourite arrangement of Gershwin music and one of my favourite musical arrangements ever!
Мой - тоже! De acuerdo! Me too.
I'm assuming this is the original, not an arrangement. 🙂
This is the original, and is not a musical, is an opera.
I remeber seeing the original movie back in the late 50's and have never seen the original film sense. it reminds me of growing up in Atlanta,ga. my old community was close nit. although it was segregated back then, I had some fun memmories of life. if anyone from Atlanta can remember the old 4th ward/butter milk bottom cumminty,it was a slum, however it was clean. every one tried thier best to rise above from where we lived. it was hard times,but I made it out.
Was there a wise guy like the singer in your community?
My parents had this album….I grew up hearing this….❤
Me too. I miss them so much but I can see them dancing in the Great Beyond to all this music. And !!!!
Maybe the singers are right there...
Mr Gershwin ahead of his time did this masterpiece 1935 ❤
Gorgeous. Another one where the music and lyrics are amazing. I don't know which one I love more, "Summertime" or "It Ain't Necessarily So." "He made his home in, that fish's ab-do-men."
🤣 my fav line too.
But I also love the line...
Methuselah lived 900 yrs.
But who who calls that livin when no gal will give in to no man what's 900 yrs.
@@juliecrane9647 Just awesome. :)
Or many others like My Man's is gone now, Porgy, your my woman now, ... The whole thing is a masterpiece.❤
It truly is.@@BulentBasaran
If the audience was Polish, exposed to Gershwin's music, Dubose Heyward and Ira Gershwin's lyrics, an all black cast, possibly for the first time, that might explain the lukewarm applause for this FABULOUS performance!!!!! Quite a change from European opera.
Thanks for this awesome video and the name of the lead singer! Will check him out more!
Actually we taped the play on the dress rehearsal, so there weren't many spectators. Only dozens invited guests, so the applause is moderate. Next three days the opera was full, and they got standing ovations, but without the cameras.
+Ella Blun :D
Right, coz how could a Polish audience know anything about Gershwin or black people?
Methusalah lived 900 years....but who calls that livin' when no gal'll give in to no man what's 900 years! Thank you Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward!
...and Mrs. Heyward, according to the new credits.
I just started a show with Reggie...this guy is awesome!
A music for eternity among many generations.
I take that gospel not with a grain of salt but with a PILLAR of salt.
**slow clap**
Bravo Ive been watching this all morning on my tablet...cant get enough!!
Do any of you understand why the Gershwin play and music scores, including the movie are performed in Europe and NOT in the US and NEVER will be? Think hard, geniuses. I"ll wait!! 🤔
A fantastic opera by the Gershwins.
an immortal classic superbly performed.
LISTENING TO THIS IN WARSAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've been wanting to see this musical since I was a kid. This is so awesome!
I love this staging ! Really better than the other ones I saw ! Really amazing casting great job man
My first time watching this....!!!!
This villain is so awesome same is not the kind of villain everyone want to be because of his urgs problem this song was perfect for him.
How Did This HEATHEN Even Get To THE CHURCH PICNIC !!!???.....
The last 15 seconds are so beautiful. Harmony!!!
Loved every minute x
Fantastische Oper und wunderbar inszeniert. Jeder einzele is perfekt.
Bronski Beat ft Jimmy Sommerville brought me here x
I LOVE Porgy and Bess. This song is entertaining to listen to--I love to listen to it. But, let me be realistic------------ am I willing to bet my everlasting soul on what is preached in this song?
Alfonso Alanzo There's a good chance there's no such thing as the everlasting soul, so get on and enjoy life while you can!
Are you willing to risk not dying in battle to get to Valhalla? When you bet with one everlasting soul, you're also betting away all the others, too.
That begs so many questions it's hard to know where to begin, but how about this: What if there is a God, but S/He rewards critical thinking, not gullability, and all the skeptics will go to heaven, and all the believers face eternal torment?
INCREDIBLE!!!! NO other words!!!!
Oooh I could swim in this.
oWo the voices... This song is well sung :D
Same!!!! It's a really fun piece to learn and play!
Interesting version of this classical song.
I appreciate it even if i prefer play it at piano.
Anyway thanks for sharing it.
Pretty sure he's eating a Snickers...
Not necessarily so.
i wish my church was like that!
Bravo!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Dritbra! Marvellous! Thanks so much!
beautiful!!
divine
sooo awesome! cant believe it! so great sang and acted! Reggie for President :D
Way to go Reggie!
Hallelujah!
It is my grade 5 piano exam piece
My teacher is making me sing this... solo... and I'm a Bariton-Tenor... this won't be easy.
How did it go?
Me encanta.
He great itty
Awesome! TY FOR POSTING
Thats my grade 5 song :D
Моя любимая ария. Прообраз песни Ирода оперы JCS.
Lyrics for it ain’t necaccerly so
Заебись!!!!!!Слушаю пока уши не завянут!!!! ЭТО не современное говно ЭТО МУЗЫКА НА ВЕКА!!!
Esta buena canción fue cantada en una OPERA por LEO REISMAN en el año 1935
Went to look for this in itunes - found so many covers, some very different - I was looking for guy Lomardo's version - I have it on vinyl already. Love the "rhyming" - makes a lot of the modern rap look pretty naive. Gershwin did not use an online rhyming dictionary.
But who say that's livin' when no woman give in to no man what's nine hundred years.
Terrific. Only problem is I had trouble understanding the lyrics.
Oh my god - he has a tropical fern named after him!
???? I love tthat Materiel since I was very young?? I started to realll!!!!!!!!!!!!!! love it since staring school????????by nine or what
so ththat means i was round about six????? but to be true I`ve noticed it
me?? I am missingg the heart?
Incredible.
Cab Calloway does a much better rendition of "It Ain't Necessarily So." After all, George and Ira Gershwin had Cab Calloway in mind when they composed the music and lyrics of that marvelous song.
while i respect your opinion and enjoy cab, of the era, i believe the vocals of Paul Robson on It Ain't Necessarily So is better even though Robson's enunciation isn't proper. i've seen many versions of this entire libretto, Porgy & Bess being my favorite, but i must say i believe i prefer Reggie Whitehead's interpretation above all, even over more noted singers.
Deborah Waddell Sportin Life is a tenor role. Robeson was a bass-baritone and had no business singing this in the first place..
nice
lol same here :)
I hear that Aladdin sample in here.
It ain't necessarily so
This man does not project well enough for him to do this without a microphone. He's great, he just does not have the operatic voice needed for that.
Cantator_Caelorum lol way to be a bitch
Or it could be the fault of the sound system picking up his performance. He actually does have a few loud notes that show some vocal chops.
...YOU sing this mothahubbard, on stage. See what you got.
Think you Sportin Life and shit.
I'm doin' a parody version of this tune, entitled
"It Is Most Probably Quite So,"
.
The Lilies Of The Field spin nitrogen, water and carbon, they toil day & night.
Nice
Damon Evans' performance of this is way more groovy ):
My gosh Sporting Life is literally shaking hands and kissing babies! He's totally legit! I completely trust him!😉😆😎
He's like that annoying friend that you don't want around because you're pretty sure he will pawn a watch or an antique .... probably yours for money
You know, I never thought of him as a politician, but now you mention it… 😉 I wonder what he did in New York?
@@kristinazubic9669 Sold drugs, just like he did in Folly Beach, SC
@LauraBrandwood
Ever heard of a 2nd tenor? The tenors that sing the higher male notes, but can also reach into a deeper range than a normal tenor?
Maybe I should have written, Tenor/Baritone. My bad.
pareltje....en huilen aan het eind
It could be the microphone placement. Judging by the lukewarm applause, the Polish audience didn't understand the words anyway.
Is there anywhere on UA-cam where I might understand the words?
In today's Poland, most people under 40 know English. However, the question is whether they understand ebonics (or Ira Gershwin's idea of ebonics, that is.)
Is this like...a bootleg? Was the remainder of the perfomance recorded?
Anyone here after Chloe Chua's Menuhin performance?
is there a recording of this available? Best performance of this song I've heard yet.
sorry you all.Nobody surpasses Avon Long from the original cast.Maybe Sammy Davies jr.I should know.Have heard P&B all my 76 years! My mother was the fist Bess.
paula schjelderup ..........Sammy Davis Jr. was the best in my opinion 😀.
hahaah royal academy, right? it was mine, too :D
@Persillebalzm I seriously doubt that this is a bootleg. It's too professionally recorded.
It's absolutely so. The bible is Absolutely so!!!! Great Song. Change the words.
Congrats on completely missing the point.
Lyrics
Gminor
It's sad that if you start typing porgy and bess into youtube the pokemon theme song is a more popular hit than Gershwin's masterpiece..
LIVING ARTS PRODUCTION . HA HA HA AGAIN.WATCH MY HAT.
That's not exactly, theologically accurate...
What a poor performer!! He whispers every other line. If you didn't know the words, how could you hear him in the back seats?
Not as good as Jimmy Summerville!
BLM take note 👁
Probably the worst version ever !
Bob Downes The thing is I love this actor but the sound quality is so bad
Basil Storm: But he is shouting and not singing
This rendition was creepy he's supposed to be a preacher not some freak dancing around this is a great scene but don't fuck it up with bad directing honestly this opera is one of the greatest pieces of American art ever created and it's about the tragedy and hardship of blacks right after slavery it's a very serious opera not a funny musical. Having said that the scene was otherwise great, good casting, singing and production design.
bing's wig Crosby ... you know that was in there. Cab Calloway did it and that man can dance. Second, he was mocking a preacher what preacher is name sportin’ life. So yeah.