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Gershwin - Porgy and Bess

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:14 am
by KG
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!

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:38 am
by Yagan Kiely
Gershwin's pieces are still in copyright (for the most part).

Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 5:33 am
by Carolus
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.