Word: duets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Musically Porgy and Bess is least good when most operatic. The top songs in Porgy and Bess-Summer Time, I Got Plenty o' Nuttin', A Woman Is a Sometime Thing, It Ain't Necessarily So, the duet Bess, You Is My Woman Now-flash out like perfect stones in too heavy a setting...
...saucer burial" of the dead man. While the Negroes chant and moan melancholy airs in the darkened room, they slowly give the widow enough money to save her husband's body from the medical students and give it proper burial. Soon after that there comes the glorious love duet, "Bess, You Is My Woman Now." This idyllic scene between Porgy and Bess contrasts sharply with the brutal savage love scene as Crown, in hiding in the swamps, finds Bess separated from a picnic party and forces her to stay with him for the night. Further tragedy comes as a hurricane...
...especially fine. Harriet Jackson who sings "Summer-time" is a stunning Negress with a beautiful voice and a fine presence. The entire cast played with the ease and rhythmic grace that is so typically Negro and the staging of the show is very fine especially in the love duet and the group scenes...
Franklin Roosevelt, less jaunty than usual, full of the precedent-breaking importance of the conference, his style a little cramped by appearing as one of a duet, introduced his guest. There were shouts from the rear by newsmen who couldn't see. Churchill stood up, grinned, climbed on his chair, waved his hand. The applause and cheers rattled the windows...
...lyric soprano and a tenor, have been rearranged and somewhat streamlined. Better are some of the picture's other tunes, Moussorgsky's Song Of The Flea (courtesy of Mr. Eddy), Saint-Saens' My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice (Miss Stevens), and Wagner's Evening Star (duet...