{"id":58637,"date":"2014-10-21T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=58637"},"modified":"2014-10-19T12:12:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T16:12:25","slug":"gershwins-porgy-and-bess-on-the-screen-at-opl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=58637","title":{"rendered":"Gershwin\u2019s \u2018Porgy and Bess\u2019 on the Screen at OPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/oneida-public-library.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-609\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/oneida-public-library.jpg\" alt=\"oneida-public-library\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>Oneida Public Library News<\/p>\n<p>(Oneida, NY \u2013 Oct. 2014) The definitive film version of George Gershwin\u2019s folk opera \u201cPorgy and Bess,\u201d as performed by Willard White and Cynthia Haymon, will be shown on the wide screen at Oneida Public Library\u00a0Thursday\u00a0evening,\u00a0Oct. 23 at\u00a06:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The 1993 film directed by Trevor Nunn opens up Nunn\u2019s highly acclaimed stage version of the opera performed at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera and later at Covent Garden in London. It stars Sir Willard White, the Jamaican-born British bass-baritone, as the crippled Porgy. White has made the role his own in various international stage productions and in award-winning recordings, including one conducted by Lorin Maazel that won him a Grammy Award. Porgy\u2019s tragic love, Bess, is performed by Cynthia Haymon, the American soprano noted for the seemingly effortless beauty of her voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPorgy and Bess\u201d is Gershwin\u2019s masterpiece, filled as it is with Gershwin\u2019s syncopated rhythms, soaring melodies and jazz harmonies. Part Broadway musical and part traditional opera, \u201cPorgy and Bess\u201d combines popular hit songs like \u201cSummertime\u201d and \u201cOh, I Got Plenty of Nuttin\u2019\u201d with soaring arias like \u201cBess, You is My Woman Now\u201d and \u201cOh Lawd, I\u2019m on My Way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPorgy and Bess,\u201d based on the novel and play by DeBose Heyward, tells the tragic love story of the crippled beggar Porgy for the tramp Bess, but it also tells in action and moving music the stories of the other African-American denizens of Catfish Row on the waterfront in Charleston, South Carolina. The highly talented cast brings out these secondary characters with distinction.<\/p>\n<p>Admission to \u201cPorgy and Bess\u201d is free, and refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, stop by Oneida Library, 220 Broad St., or call 363-3050.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OPL treats preschoolers to a Hallowe\u2019en costume party<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0Thursday Oct. 30 at\u00a010 a.m., educator Elaine Clark is hosting a Bell, Book and Candy Hallowe\u2019en Costume Party for preschoolers and their parents or guardians at Oneida Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>Clark invites the guests young and old to dress up in their best trick-or-treat costumes and share in a swirl of crafts, stories, a costume parade though the whole library and a treasure hunt for books and candy.<\/p>\n<p>The Hallowe\u2019en Costume Party is a special edition of the regular OPL preschool program Ready, Set, Read.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, stop by Oneida Library, 220 Broad St., or call 363-3050.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oneida Public Library News (Oneida, NY \u2013 Oct. 2014) The definitive film version of George Gershwin\u2019s folk opera \u201cPorgy and Bess,\u201d as performed by Willard White and Cynthia Haymon, will be shown on the wide screen at Oneida Public Library\u00a0Thursday\u00a0evening,\u00a0Oct. 23 at\u00a06:30 p.m. The 1993 film directed by Trevor Nunn opens up Nunn\u2019s highly acclaimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}