Category Archives: Porgy and Bess
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Porgy and Bess and The Help
The Gershwin Porgy and Bess, all too briefly playing at the Seattle Opera, is stupendous. I read a lot about the history of the opera, the debates about whether it was a musical or an opera, the complaints about the stereotyping of blacks, the protests by blacks during the Civil Rights era that Gershwin’s language […]
This entry was posted on August 16, 2011 and is filed under Anne Moody, Porgy and Bess, White writers on black experience.
