Musical Bacon: Craig Rutenberg

Artist name	Roles	Recordings
George Gershwin	chorus master	Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "Give him to me" - "Lissen to yo' daddy warn you" - "A woman is a sometime thing" (Jake, Mingo, Sporting Life, Chorus, Baby, Clara, Robbins, Peter, Lily, Maria), Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "Here comes Big Boy!" (Mingo, Jake, Jim, Crown, Porgy, Serena, Bess, Robbins, Chorus, Sporting Life), Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "Oh, nobody knows when the Lawd is goin' to call" (Mingo, Chorus, Sporting Life, Jake, Serena, Robbins, Jim, Clara, Crap Shooters (Male Chorus)), Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. "Six to make!" (Sporting Life, Jim, Jake, Mingo, Porgy, Crown, Robbins, Maria, Serena, Bess, Chorus), Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. Introduction: Jasbo Brown Solo / Chorus, Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene II. "A saucer-burying set-up, I see" (Detective, Serena, Lily, Peter, Porgy, Policeman, Maria, Jake, Chorus), Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene II. "My man's gone now" (Serena, Chorus), Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene II. "Oh, the train is at the station" (Bess, Chorus), Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene II. "Overflow, overflow" (Chorus, Porgy), Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene II. "Where is brudder Robbins?" - "Come on, sister!" (solo soprano, Chorus, solo baritone, Serena, Maria, Bess, solo soprano, Jake, Peter, Porgy, Clara), Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Boy! Come here, boy!" (Archdale, Scipio, Clara, Serena, Mingo, Jake, Porgy, Frazier, Chorus), Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Buzzard keep on flyin' over" (Porgy, Chorus), Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Mornin', Lawyer, lookin' for somebody?" (Maria, Frazier, Porgy, Bess, Chorus, Lily, Bass voice, Scipio, Annie, Serena), Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Mus' be you mens forgot about de picnic" - "Oh, I got plenty o' nuttin'" (Annie, Jake, Clara, Porgy, Chorus, Serena, Maria), Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Oh, I can't sit down" (Chorus, Maria, Bess, Porgy), Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene I. "Oh, I'm agoin' out to the Blackfish banks" (Jake, Chorus), Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene II. "I ain't got no shame" (Chorus), Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene II. "It ain't necessarily so" - "Shame on all you sinners" (Sporting Life, Chorus, Serena, Maria), Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene III. "Honey, dat's all de breakfast I got time for" (Jake, Fisherman, Jim, Nelson, Maria, Chorus), Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene IV. "A red-headed woman make a choo-choo jump its track" (Crown, Chorus, Clara, Bess), Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene IV. "All right, I'm goin' out to get Clara" - "Oh, Doctor Jesus" (Crown, Porgy, Solo sextet, Chorus), Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene IV. "Oh, Doctor Jesus" (Solo sextet, Chorus, Porgy, Clara, Serena, Sporting Life), Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene IV. "Oh, dere's somebody knockin' at de do'" (Chorus, Peter, Maria, Lily, Mingo, Other woman), Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene IV. "One of dese mornings you goin' to rise up singin'" (Clara, Chorus, Porgy, Bess), Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene IV. "You is a nice parcel of Christians!" (Crown, Serena, Bess, Porgy, Woman, Chorus), Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene I. "Clara, Clara, don't you be downhearted" - "You low-life skunk, ain' you got no shame" (Chorus, Sporting Life, Maria), Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. "Bess is gone" (Lily, Porgy, Serena, Mingo, Maria, Chorus), Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. "Good mornin', sistuh!" - "It's Porgy comin' home" (Solo tenor, solo mezzo-soprano, Chorus, Children, Mingo, Porgy), Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene III. "Oh Lawd, I'm on my way" (Porgy, Chorus)
Thomas Hampson	piano	As Adam Early in the Morning, Dirge for Two Veterans, Ethiopia Saluting the Colors, Look Down Fair Moon, To What You Said, We Two
Ralph Vaughan Williams	piano	A Clear Midnight, Joy, shipmate, joy!

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