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Rhapsody in Blue
19942-0757932460Warner Bros Pubns 1994. Paperback. New. 12.00x9.00x0.50 inches. Warner Bros Pubns paperback
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19942-0757932460Warner Bros Pubns 1994. Paperback. New. 12.00x9.00x0.50 inches. Warner Bros Pubns paperback
2005__1843280612International Music Publications 2005. Paperback. New. 142 pages. 11.97x8.98x0.94 inches. International Music Publications paperback
1994Q-0769276814Alfred Music 1994-11-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Alfred Music paperback
1995Q-0769235808Alfred Music 1995-12-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Alfred Music paperback
1995Q-0769258921Alfred Music 1995-04-01. Sheet music. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Alfred Music unknown
100-21336New World Music Corp. Paperback. New. New World Music Corp paperback
1348644Alfred Publishing. Used - Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages. Alfred Publishing unknown
1999DADAX0769269893Alfred Publishing Company 1999-03-01. paperback. New. 7.87x5.51x1.57. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Alfred Publishing Company paperback
1995DADAX0769258921Alfred 1995-04-01. sheet_music. New. 8.70x0.40x11.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Alfred unknown
1994Q-0757916635Alfred Music 1994-10-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Alfred Music paperback
1849380694.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1956107399Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe muzykal'noe izdatel'stvo State Music Publishers 1956. Apparently the first Russian edition of Rhapsody in Blue and as was often the case with Muzizdat publications of contemporary Western music it is possible that it was a piracy. Uncommon no copy traced on WorldCat. Introduction by the leading soviet musicologist Grigori Schneerson. Quarto 287 x 222 mm. Wire-stitched in the original printed wrappers. Staples a touch rusted just a little rubbed on the spine and at the wrap edges pale toning last leaf creased overall very good. unknown
1955388708Stony Brook New York: Stony Brook Music Festival 1955. Softcover. Near Fine. Quarto. 8pp. Illustrated wrappers. Slight soiling very near fine. Program for an All-Gershwin program on July 23rd 1955 conducted by D'Artega. Stony Brook Music Festival unknown
1953502093<p>PROGRAM for the Blevins Davis/Robert Breen production of "Porgy and Bess" Ziegfeld Theatre New York 1953 starring Cab Calloway LeVern Hutchinson and Leslie Scott. 4to. 37 b/w photographs numerous b/w illustrations. Stiff color pictorial wraps.</p>
1953195098<p>under direction of Robert Breen. New York Everyman Opera 1952. 4to. Introduction reproduces a Dwight D. Eisenhower letter dated March 30 1953. 28 pages including outer printed covers. Gershwin 1898-1937 American composer of theatrical and film scores often with his brother Ira; also known for his semiclassical jazz-influenced orchestral works "Rhapsody in Blue" 1924; "An American in Paris" 1928 and his innovative folk opera "Porgy and Bess" 1935; won first Pulitzer Prize for a musical "Of Thee I Sing" 1931.</p> unknown
1994Q-0769260098Alfred Music 1994-11-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Alfred Music paperback
198745607New York: Treves 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. ; 1 x 7.8 x 5.12 Inches; 144 pages. Treves hardcover
19703461Budapest: Opera 1970. First editon. In original paper. Very good condition. First editon. In original paper. 25 p. Booklet for the Hungarian Premier in 1970 in the Opera house in Budapest. Opera unknown
19991-0769200567Warner Bros Pubns 1999. Sheet music. New. 572 pages. 11.75x8.75x1.50 inches. Warner Bros Pubns unknown
193598943New York: Random House 1935. Deluxe limited edition of Porgy and Bess number 55 of only 250 copies signed by George Gershwin Ira Gershwin DuBose Heyward and director Rouben Mamoulian. Folio original full red morocco raised bands top edge gilt illustrated. In near fine condition. An exceptional example. Gershwin read Porgy in 1926 and proposed that he should collaborate with Heyward on Porgy and Bess. In 1934 Gershwin and Heyward began work on the project by visiting the author's native Charleston. Gershwin explained why he called Porgy and Bess a folk opera in a 1935 New York Times article: "Porgy and Bess is a folk tale. Its people naturally would sing folk music. When I first began work in the music I decided against the use of original folk material because I wanted the music to be all of one piece. Therefore I wrote my own spirituals and folksongs. But they are still folk music – and therefore being in operatic form Porgy and Bess becomes a folk opera." Today Porgy and Bess is widely considered to be Gershwin’s masterpiece. This deluxe edition of the piano-vocal score according to Fuld no orchestral score has ever been published was published in 1935 the year of Porgy and Bess premiere almost simultaneously with the first edition and is boldly signed on the limitation page at the rear by George and Ira Gershwin and the other principal creators of Porgy and Bess: librettist DuBose Heyward and director Rouben Mamoulian Fuld 539. Random House hardcover
19351246541935. First Edition. Signed. GERSHWIN George. Porgy and Bess. An Opera in Three Acts. By George Gershwin. Libretto by DuBose Heyward. Lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. Production Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. New York: Random House 1935. Folio original full red morocco raised bands black leather label on front cover top edge gilt. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $48500.Deluxe limited edition of the piano-vocal score of Porgy and Bess number 103 of only 250 copies signed by George Gershwin Ira Gershwin DuBose Heyward and director Rouben Mamoulian additionally inscribed by Gershwin to his lover Kay Swift who was intimately involved in the composition of the piece: For Kay / Best / George / Nov. 1 1935. According to Ohl best their code word for love allowed them to be discreet.This deluxe edition of the piano-vocal score according to Fuld no orchestral score has ever been published was published in 1935 the year of Porgy and Bess premiere almost simultaneously with the first edition and is boldly signed on the limitation page at the rear by George and Ira Gershwin and the other principal creators of Porgy and Bess: librettist DuBose Heyward and director Rouben Mamoulian. Fuld 539. The recipient Kay Swift met Gershwin in 1925. A highly educated beauty of prominent social position she was not yet known as a songwriter her first big hit would be in 1929 with ""Can't We Be Friends"". ""If one measures by the dedication of his Song-Book to her his generous gifts of paintings manuscripts and other keepsakes that betokened affection plus the many hours he spent with her Gershwin obviously had a special place in his heart for Kay Swift With Kay Gershwin probably came as close to settling down with one woman as he ever did"" Schwarz 190. Swift was extensively involved with the composition of Porgy and Bess almost from the beginning: Swift was Gershwin's guest at the premiere of the play version by Heyward's wife. When composing the operamuch of which occurred at a cottage on Swift's country estateSwift was often in her words Gershwin's ""soundboard"" for new ideas. ""'He'd call me and tell me to rush over to play the orchestra part of a song. He couldn't sing. Neither could Ira. But we'd all sing Ira's or DuBose Heyward's lyrics sounding like a chorus of crows Each day as the work grew a few of usBill Daly his close friend and favorite conductor and myself Ira of course and DuBose Heyward who wrote the libretto as well as some of the lyrics were probably present much of the time. It was thrilling to hear the themes develop the recitatives build into such an inevitable part of the score that they flowed as naturally as spoken words would. The whole sparkled with a fantastic quality of imagination She also had an even more direct part in the opera's development. In addition to listening singing and playing the work in progress Swift sometimes notated portions of pieces for Gershwin evidently to expedite his later work on the compositions. He believed she wrote faster and more neatly than she could."" Extensive portions of the original manuscript now in the Gershwin collection at the Library of Congress are in Swift's hand demonstrating ""her role as an assistant to the composer and signify the trust he must have placed in her and her notational and musical abilities"" Ohl 95-96. During actual production Swift attended most rehearsals and was present at many of the casting decisions. After the preview run in Boston it was clear that the four-hour opera was too long so ""Gershwin Mamoulian composer Alexander Steinert and Kay Swift walked the Boston Common in the early hours of the morning deciding which portions to cut""; one month later at the premiere in New York ""Swift was seated between George and Ira"". Later Swift would deliver lectures throughout the country as part of the promotion of Porgy and Bess. ""Ira recalled that she had memorized the entire 559-page score and would be illustrating songs from it at the piano"" Ohl 97-98. ""After her yeoman's effort during Porgy and Bess he presented her with a leather-bound autographed score the present copy that reads simply 'Tosic Kay. Best. George.' 'Best' their code word for 'love' allowed them to be discreet"" Ohl 115. Interior fine spine somewhat toned light rubbing to spine ends. A near-fine copy with an extraordinary association. hardcover
1935321533New York: Random House 1935. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Libretto by Dubose Heyward; Lyrics by Dubose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. Frontispiece and title page decoration by George Biddle. Small folio full red leather. New York: Random House 1935. Limited First Edition. The black leather labels are missing as is often the case otherwise near fine in a good slipcase.<br/> <br/> One of 250 copies autographed by both Gershwins Heyward and Rouben Mamoulian the director. A near fine copy in the original raffia slipcase which is roughed up on the spine.<br/> <br/> Random House unknown
1935174953New York: Random House 1935. Summertime an' the livin' is easy": the Gershwins' masterpiece signed by George and Ira First edition signed limited issue number 141 of 250 copies signed by George and Ira Gershwin DuBose Heyward and Rouben Mamoulian. The show was a landmark for the American stage and for the casting of African Americans in the lead roles. Copies are rare in this condition. In the summer of 1926 and in one sitting George Gershwin read DuBose Heyward's 1925 novel Porgy about the Gullah community in South Carolina. "The potential of this book to become the basis of a powerful opera - his opera - jumped out at him. In the morning he wrote to Heyward saying they ought to get together to discuss the idea" Rimler p. 21. The immediate plan to adapt it into an opera was curtailed by Heyward's wife first adapting the novel as a stage play Porgy and Bess which opened in 1927. It was not until 1933 that Heyward and Gershwin settled on working on a musical adaptation with the agreement on 3 November 1933 that Gershwin would write the score Heyward the libretto and that Heyward and Ira would collaborate on the lyrics. On its opening night 30 September 1935 Boston's Colonial Theatre gave the performance a 15-minute standing ovation. The work opened on Broadway on 10 October 1935 and ran for 124 performances. "Combining the dramatic structure of opera and the musical style of jazz and Tin Pan Alley the work was especially important in the development of American musical theater. Although it did not recoup its investment Porgy and Bess was an outstanding achievement that brought black singers to the Broadway stage in significant roles" American National Biography. Quarto 311 x 230 mm. Colour frontispiece and pictorial title page by George Biddle. Original red morocco spine lettered in blind with raised bands black morocco label to front board lettered in gilt with publisher's device in blind top edge silver silken straw weave endpapers. With the original raffia-covered slipcase. Playbill for the original Broadway production at the Alvin Theatre loosely inserted. Foot of spine a little worn spine toned minor soiling to front cover slight separation at gutter between gatherings and endpapers slipcase a little worn; box bumped and faded: a near-fine copy in like slipcase. Walter Rimler George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait 2009. hardcover
06558New York: Random House 1935. One of the Great Signed American Musical Landmarks<br /> The Sumptuous Limited Edition of Porgy and Bess<br /> <br /> GERSHWIN George. Porgy and Bess. An Opera in Three Acts by George Gershwin. Libretto by Dubose Heyward. Lyrics by Dubose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. Production directed by Rouben Mamoulian. New York: Random House 1935.<br /> <br /> First edition limited to 250 copies of which this is no. 167 signed by George Gershwin Ira Gershwin DuBose Heyward and Rouben Mamoulian.<br /> <br /> Large quarto 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches; 310 x 235 mm. xiv 559 1 blank pp. Including color frontispiece and pictorial color title-page by George Biddle commissioned in connection with the original production. With the signed limitation leaf inserted at rear.<br /> <br /> Publisher's full red morocco front cover decoratively blind stamped and with a gilt-lettered black morocco label spine with two raised bands and two black morocco labels lettered in gilt straw endpapers top edge gilt. Spine with only the faintest touch of darkening. Housed in a later red cloth slipcase. A superb copy and one of the finest examples we have encountered.<br /> <br /> A particularly desirable example of one of the most important American musical publications of the twentieth century: the deluxe signed issue of Porgy and Bess issued in the year of the opera's first performances. The work opened first in Boston on September 30 1935 and reached New York's Alvin Theatre on October 10 1935 under the direction of Rouben Mamoulian. From the beginning it was understood as an ambitious and unprecedented undertaking - Gershwin's own attempt to unite operatic form with jazz spiritual folk and theatrical idioms in a distinctly American work.<br /> <br /> The present limitation is especially appealing in that it bears the signatures not merely of the composer but of the principal creative collaborators responsible for bringing the work to the stage: George Gershwin lyricist Ira Gershwin librettist DuBose Heyward and director Rouben Mamoulian. Copies signed by all four figures capture the collaborative nature of the production in a way few American musical books can match. The Library of Congress records the existence of this 1935 limited edition within the Gershwin materials further underscoring its place as the formal book publication of the original production.<br /> <br /> Few works of American musical theater or American opera have had a comparable afterlife. Whatever the critical debates that have accompanied it Porgy and Bess endures as Gershwin's most ambitious stage composition and one of the central monuments of American music. <br /> <br /> In the present handsome morocco binding and in such striking condition this is an unusually choice copy of a book that is increasingly difficult to secure well preserved. New York: Random House, 1935 unknown
