Monday, May 21, 2007

Summertime


"Summertime" is the name of an aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. A popular jazz standard.

An international group of collectors of recordings of Summertime known as "The Summertime Connection," knows of at least 18,379 public performances, of which 12,688 have been recorded. Of those, the group has 7,647 full recordings and about 1,100 samples and incomplete recordings in its collection. (May 15, 2007)

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