Word: librettists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With DuBose Heyward as his librettist, Composer Gershwin kept his work faithful to the play. The Negroes of Charleston's Catfish Row live in the same rickety tenements. They still quarrel and kill over their crap games, still shout their religion, their love and fear of ''Lawd Jesus." Porgy, the crippled beggar, appears driving his seedy goat. The simple love story is his. Bess belongs to the murderer Crown. According to the neighbors she is "a liquor-guzzlin' slut," a "Happy Dust" addict. Porgy gives her shelter, buys her a divorce although she never has been...
...combined talents of George Gershwin as composer, DuBose Heyward as librettist and Rouben Mamoulian as director have been welded by the Theatre Guild's skillful wand into "Porgy and Bess" an "American Folk Opera" of unique distinction. Although it is essentially operatic material Mr. Gershwin has put his work upon the legitimate boards through a desire to give it broader circulation than it could achieve through operatic channels, and a good thing it is indeed...
Private fulminations and public carpings against the New Deal have become almost a routine of the business day. But only one banker has made himself notable for his self-dedication to the job of serious argument: James Paul ("Jimmy") Warburg, 38, author, smart son of a smart father, librettist husband of a tuneful wife, vice chairman of Bank of the Manhattan Co. Last week in Buffalo, Jimmy War burg concluded, with these words, the ablest of his many speeches...
...temperaments of his composer and his ebullient librettist, William Schwenck Gilbert, were the greatest burdens of Manager Carte's harassed life. He had brought them together four years before, had helped them make the biggest names in Victorian theatrical history. But all his vast reserves of tact and persuasion could not prevent the immensely successful but entirely antipodal collaborators from a ruinous breach over £140 worth of carpet eleven years later...
...sometimes weirdly soft, sometimes fiercely loud. Abdul Assen, the witch doctor, had polite audiences in chills last week as he groveled over the prostrate bridegroom, chanted and yelped his frenzied incantations. The bridegroom, a wide-smiling Negro with a large gold tooth, was Asadata Dafora Horton, Kykunkor's librettist, composer, choreographer and director. He is a native of Sierra Leone. His great- grandfather, a slave for a time, took the name Horton from the Nova Scotian who owned him. Asadata Dafora started studying tribal music and dancing in his 'teens, traveled all over Africa, learned 14 dialects which...