Gershwin, George: Summertime
Summertime
Porgy and Bess
George Gershwin

Clarinet Quintet

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Summertime
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Composer
George Gershwin
Gershwin, George (1898 - 1937)
Instrumentation

Clarinet Quintet

Sheet central Porgy and Bess (84 sheet music)
Style

Jazz

Arranger
Dewagtere, Bernard (1958 - )
Date 1935
Copyright Copyright © Dewagtere, Bernard
Added by bernard-dewagtere, 21 Nov 2011
Gershwin began composing the song in December 1933, attempting to create his own spiritual in the style of the African American folk music of the period. The Ukrainian-Canadian composer and singer Alexis Kochan has suggested that he based the tune on a Ukrainian lullaby, Oi Khodyt Son Kolo Vikon (A Dream Passes By The Windows), which he heard in a New York City performance by Oleksander Koshetz?s Ukrainian National Chorus in 1929.[6] Gershwin had completed setting DuBose Heyward's poem to music ...(+)
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