George Gershwin: Bidin' My Time

George Gershwin: Bidin' My Time (2020)

This program is set among excerpts of letters and archival interviews with George Gershwin and his brother and lyricist Ira Gershwin, his longtime musical collaborator Kay Swift, and the legendary pianist Oscar Levant. The words of Todd Duncan and Anne Brown, the original Porgy and Bess, provide an intimate perspective on the creation of Gershwin’s “folk opera” and the invaluable contributions of its performers. Peppered among hits like “Embraceable You” and “Love Is Here To Stay” are pieces of essays written by George Gershwin in which he pondered and pontificated on the meaning of “jazz” and the definition of “music” itself. Asserting his constant effort to eschew genres, Gershwin wrote: “From any sound critical standpoint, labels mean nothing at all. Good music is good music, even if you call it ‘oysters.’”

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	Beth Malone as Narrator
	Farah Alvin as
	Allison Blackwell as
	Nikki Renée Daniels as
	Brandon Victor Dixon as
	Katherine Henly as
	Jeff Kready as
	James T. Lane as
	Telly Leung as
	Kara Lindsay as
	Julia K. Murney as
	Zachary Noah Piser as
	Zachary Prince as
	Pearl Sun as
	Mariand Torres as

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