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Aloysius Tyrone Foster (born January 18, 1943) is an American jazz drummer. Foster's professional career began in the mid-60s, when he played and recorded with hard bop and swing musicians including Blue Mitchell and Illinois Jacquet.
Al Foster (* 18. Januar 1943 [1] in Richmond, Virginia ), auch bekannt als A. Foster, Aloysius 'Al' Foster, Aloysius Foster und Foster [2], ist ein amerikanischer Jazz -Schlagzeuger. Foster wuchs in New York City auf, wo er das Schlagzeugspiel autodidaktisch erlernte.
18. Jan. 2018 · Der legendäre Drummer, der - fast - mit allen Stars des Jazz spielte, wird am 18. Januar 2018 75 Jahre alt. Ein Interview mit BR-KLASSIK über seinen Schlagzeugstil und Musiker, die er verehrt ...
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The origin of Porgy and Bess is DuBose Heyward's 1925 novel Porgy. Heyward produced a play by the same name with Dorothy Heyward. George Gershwin read Porgy in 1926 and proposed to Heyward to collaborate on an operatic version. In 1934, Gershwin and Heyward began work on the project by visiting the author's native Charleston, South Carolina. In a 1...
In the fall of 1933 Gershwin and Heyward signed a contract with the Theatre Guild to write the opera. In the summer of 1934 Gershwin and Heyward went to Folly Beach, South Carolina(a small island near Charleston), where Gershwin got a feel for the locale and its music. He worked on the opera there and in New York. Ira Gershwin, in New York, wrote l...
1935 original Broadway production
Gershwin's first version of the opera, running four hours (counting the two intermissions), was performed privately in a concert version in Carnegie Hall, in the fall of 1935. He chose as his choral director Eva Jessye, who also directed her own renowned choir. The world premiere performance took place at the Colonial Theatre in Boston on September 30, 1935—the try-out for a work intended initially for Broadway where the opening took place at the Alvin Theatre in New York City on October 10,...
1942 Broadway revival
Noted director and producer Cheryl Crawford produced professional stock theater in Maplewood, New Jersey, for three very successful seasons. The last of these closed with Porgy and Bess, which she co-produced with John Wildberg. In refashioning it in the style of musical theater which Americans were used to hearing from Gershwin, Crawford produced a drastically cut version of the opera compared with the first Broadway staging. The orchestra was reduced, the cast was halved, and many recitativ...
European premieres
On March 27, 1943, the opera had its European premiere at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen. Performed during the Nazi occupation of the country, this performance was notable for being performed by an all-white cast made up in blackface. After 22 sold-out performances, the Nazis forced the theater to close the production. Other all- or mostly white productions in Europe, reflecting contemporary demographics in the countries, took place in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1945 and 1950, and Gothen...
Place: Catfish Row, a fictitious large black tenement based on Cabbage Row, on the waterfront of Charleston, South Carolina.Time: The early 1920s.Ira Gershwin stipulated that only blacks be allowed to play the lead roles when the opera was performed in the United States, launching the careers of several prominent opera singers. Gershwin sought to write a true jazz opera and believed that Metropolitan Operastaff singers could never master the jazz idiom, which could instead only be sung by a ...
In the summer of 1934, George Gershwin worked on the opera in Charleston, South Carolina. He drew inspiration from the James Island Gullahcommunity, which he felt had preserved some African musical traditions. The music reflects his New York jazz roots, but also draws on southern black traditions. Gershwin modeled the pieces after each type of folk...
The 1976 and 1977 recordings of the opera won Grammy Awards for Best Opera Recording, making Porgy and Bessthe only opera to win this award over two consecutive years.
Television
In 1993, Trevor Nunn's Glyndebourne Festival stage production of Porgy and Bess, not to be confused with his later production, was greatly expanded scenically and videotaped in a television studio without an audience. This first Nunn production was also called The Gershwins' 'Porgy and Bess' when shown on television. It was telecast by the BBC in England and by PBS in the United States. It featured a cast of operatic American singers, with the exception of Willard White, who is Jamaican but s...
Radio
On December 1, 1935, during the Broadway run, Todd Duncan and Anne Brown performed "Summertime", "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'" and "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" on NBC's The Magic Key of RCA radio program. Duncan and Brown also appeared on the 1937 CBS Gershwin memorial concert on September 8, 1937, broadcast from the Hollywood Bowl less than two months after the composer's death, along with several other members of the Broadway cast, including John W. Bubbles and Ruby Elzy. They performed several...
Concert
Gershwin prepared an orchestral suite containing music from the opera after Porgy and Bess closed early on Broadway. Though it was originally titled "Suite from Porgy and Bess", Ira later renamed it Catfish Row. In 1942 Robert Russell Bennett arranged a medley (rather than a suite) for orchestra which has often been heard in the concert hall, known as Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture. It is based on Gershwin's original scoring, though for a slightly different instrumentation (the piano was...
Porgy and Besscontains many songs that have become popular in their own right, becoming standards in jazz and blues in addition to their original operatic setting. Some of the most popular songs are: Some of the more celebrated renditions of these songs include Sarah Vaughan's "It Ain't Necessarily So" and the versions of "Summertime" recorded by B...
On July 14, 1993, the United States Postal Service recognized the opera's cultural significance by issuing a commemorative 29-cent postage stamp. In 2001, Porgy and Besswas proclaimed the official opera of the state of South Carolina. The 1940/1942 Decca Porgy and Bess recording with members of the original cast was included by the National Recordi...
25. Juli 2022 · Approaching 80 years of age is occasion enough for anyone to take a moment and look back on a life well lived. For revered drummer Al Foster, those eight decades have been more memorable than most, filled with exhilarating sounds and encounters with some of the music’s most iconic figures.
Porgy and Bess. y Foster Hirsch. When producer Samuel Goldwyn, after lengthy and torturous negotgatgons with Ira Gershwin, won the rights to make a film of George Gersh-win’s “Porgy and ess,” the 1935 folk opera set in atfish Row, a black gheto scarred by poverty and drugs, he may well have thought the hard part was over/ !s it turned out ...
