Hi there - does anyone have the full orchestral score of Porgy and Bess available? I've only been able to find vocal scores. I don't need the entire opera - the introduction/first scene would be enough. (I don't think there's any PD issues but let me know if there is.)
Thanks!
Gershwin - Porgy and Bess
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The problem with Porgy and Bess lies not with the composer, who died in 1937, but with the authors (both of the original story and the libretto):
DuBose Heyward (1885-1940)
Ira Gershwin (1896-1983)
Dorothy Heyward (1890-1961)
Dorothy Heyward and Ira Gershwin are both protected in Canada. Brother Ira for a very long time, too (PD in 2034). So unless you have a instrumental excerpt - not an arrangement by someone else (Robert Russell Bennett, for example) - nothing can be posted here.
DuBose Heyward (1885-1940)
Ira Gershwin (1896-1983)
Dorothy Heyward (1890-1961)
Dorothy Heyward and Ira Gershwin are both protected in Canada. Brother Ira for a very long time, too (PD in 2034). So unless you have a instrumental excerpt - not an arrangement by someone else (Robert Russell Bennett, for example) - nothing can be posted here.