Word: nuttin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Porgy's strengths are obvious. The creation of one of America's most brilliant native musical talents, the opera boasts a number of songs that have become standards: Summertime; I Got Plenty o' Nuttin '; Bess, You Is My Woman Now; It Ain 't Necessarily So. More subtle, but no less impressive, are the choruses, which give voice to the residents of Catfish Row: their lamentation in Gone, Gone, Gone, their exuberance in Ain't Got No Shame, their terror in Oh, de Lawd Shake de Heavens. Proudly, Gershwin considered his work "the greatest music...