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An Entity of Type : wsb:Song, within Data Space : wasabi.inria.fr associated with source document(s)

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  • Summertime
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  • 1930s jazz standards
  • 1935 songs
  • Jazz compositions in A minor
  • Lullabies
  • Pop standards
  • Songs from Porgy and Bess
  • Songs with lyrics by DuBose Heyward
abstract
  • %22Summertime%22 is an aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, although the song is also co-credited to Ira Gershwin by ASCAP.The song soon became a popular and much recorded jazz standard, described as %22without doubt ... one of the finest songs the composer ever wrote ... Gershwin's highly evocative writing brilliantly mixes elements of jazz and the song styles of blacks in the southeast United States from the early twentieth century%22. Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim has characterized Heyward's lyrics for %22Summertime%22 and %22My Man's Gone Now%22 as %22the best lyrics in the musical theater%22. The song is recognized as one of the most covered songs in the history of recorded music, with more than 33,000 covers by groups and solo performers.
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  • NLA270600849
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  • PT262.00922902S
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  • 395685
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  • 81386394
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  • english
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  • Summertime
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