The Sometime of ‘Summertime’: Porgy and Bess at 85 & Gershwin Remixed
Friday, October 93PM-4PM ESTWebinar link: https://yale.zoom.us/j/97029901248 Join Professors Brian Kane and Daphne A. Brooks in conversation with Allison Chu (Dept. of Music) for a conversation and critical listening session to mark the 85th anniversary of the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Together, we’ll examine the racial and gender complexities of this classic production, and we’ll trace the evolution and legacies of “Summertime,” the production’s most famous smash and a song that generations of Black artists (from Billie
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