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...Headin' Home...
...something ; richer than the overblown musical comedy it once appeared to be. Although many singers have used Porgy as a springboard to fame (Leontyne Price, for example, in 1952), the Met production reveals it as essentially a choral opera. It is in choruses like Gone, Gone, Gone and Headin' for the Promise' Lan' and the extraordinary Oh, Doctor Jesus, in which six independent musical lines, notated without bars, move freely against a hummed background, that the voice and soul of the residents of Catfish Row are heard. Porgy is their story, and the celebrated songs like Bess...
...Headin'straight for his position...
...square had been dug. "Throw 'em in," shouted the crowd. Sheriff Lauderdale warned them: "I'm still in charge, and I'm going to see they are buried right." While the dirt was shoveled in some members of the crowd chanted, "I'm Headin' for the Last Round Up," "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal, You," "Bye, Bye, Blackbirds." Finally Hernando went home to breakfast. Same day five other Negroes were executed- one at Tupelo, Miss, for murder; two at Raleigh, N. C. for murder; one for murder...
...months ago, the first time Orchestra-Leader George Olsen played it at New York's Paramount Theatre and young Joe Morrison, a member of the Olsen troupe, shy, unaffected, unknown, stepped up to the amplifier and started to sing slowly, to a tender swinging rhythm: I'm headin' for the Last Round-Up, Gonna saddle old Paint for the last time and ride.* The Paramount audience that day suddenly found itself strangely affected, listened as it would have listened to an old familiar ballad. For the last time Billy Hill's cowboy coaxed his steers-into...