With this week's focus on summer at Word & Song, I determined to share with you "Summertime," written by the great American composer, George Gershwin, for his opera, Porgy & Bess. When this song comes to my mind, I of course think of it as a vocal, and obviously that is how Gershwin conceived it. But in researching the music I ran across the most subl…
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