{"id":7679,"date":"2015-07-27T23:58:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T02:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/?p=7679"},"modified":"2021-11-29T16:11:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T15:11:35","slug":"in-performance-nina-simone-i-loves-you-porgy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/in-performance-nina-simone-i-loves-you-porgy\/","title":{"rendered":"In Performance: Nina Simone &#8211; &#8216;I Loves You, Porgy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"s7RoA-JI6Us\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I loves you Porgy - Nina Simone\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s7RoA-JI6Us?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Of those songs which became standards and entered into the Great American Songbook from the folk opera <em>Porgy and Bess<\/em>, few have inspired such vital renderings as \u2018I Loves You, Porgy\u2019. While the ubiquitous \u2018Summertime\u2019 and the upbeat irreverence of \u2018It Ain\u2019t Necessarily So\u2019 scored early chart success before making the transition from jazz and easy listening to such diverse genres as ska punk and new wave, \u2018I Loves You, Porgy\u2019 as the tragic heart of <em>Porgy and Bess<\/em> has remained indelibly true to the aspirations and character of the opera.<\/p>\n<p>A song borne of despair and swallowing romance, it was embraced by jazz singers like Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald before spurring the career of Nina Simone when it served as the climax of her 1959 debut album <em>Little Girl Blue<\/em>. A favourite of Bill Evans, an interpretation of the song from the live album <em>Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival<\/em> helped the pianist and his trio to the 1969 Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0Yr4oYyDHn0\">while an earlier performance at the Village Vanguard in 1961<\/a> would eventually land on the expanded CD version of <em>Waltz for Debby<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Jarrett <a href=\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/culturedarms-songs-of-the-month-may-2015\/\">gave a stirring piano recital<\/a> for the album <em>Solo Tribute: The 100th Performance in Japan<\/em>, which was recorded live at Suntory Hall in Tokyo in the spring of 1987. And at the height of her career at the beginning of 1994, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0eGIo_SCrN8\">Whitney Houston sang \u2018I Loves You, Porgy\u2019<\/a> as the first song in a medley, followed by \u2018And I Am Telling You\u2019 and \u2018I Have Nothing\u2019 as the star held the stage and came away with eight awards from the American Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>The opera <em>Porgy and Bess<\/em> was composed by George Gershwin, and written with a libretto by the author DuBose Heyward in collaboration with the lyricist Ira Gerswhin. Although Ira has sometimes been credited as the lyricist for Porgy and Bess, most of the lyrics were written by Heyward with the notable exception of \u2018It Ain\u2019t Necessarily So\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In 1925 Heyward had published his debut novel <em>Porgy,<\/em> about a disabled black beggar, living in the slum of Catfish Row in Charleston, South Carolina. The titular character takes in and\u00a0falls in love\u00a0with\u00a0a woman named Bess, who is already involved in a relationship with the violent stevedore Crown. Passages in the novel depict its characters speaking in Gullah, a creole which combines English with aspects of West and Central African languages. Gullah is spoken by communities living on the Sea Islands,\u00a0and across coastal South Carolina and Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>By the following year, George Gershwin had read Heyward\u2019s novel and had already broached the idea of turning it into on opera. In 1927 Heyward and his wife, Dorothy, herself a playwright, adapted the novel for the theatre. <em>Porgy: A Play in Four Acts<\/em> proved a resounding success. Starring\u00a0a black cast, it opened at the Guild Theatre on Broadway on 10 October 1927, and over the course of the next few years completed fifty-five weeks in New York, two tours of the northern United States and Canada, and eleven weeks in London.<\/p>\n<p>With its modified ending and increased focus on the character of Sportin\u2019 Life, the play would serve as a close model for the eventual opera.\u00a0George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward returned to the project in 1934, and <em>Porgy and Bess<\/em> premiered \u2013 after a private concert performance in New York \u2013 on 30 September 1935, at the Colonial Theatre in Boston. This initial run featured a full cast of classically trained black singers. George Gershwin would call <em>Porgy and Bess<\/em> a \u2018folk opera\u2019:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u2018Porgy and Bess is a folk tale. Its people naturally would sing folk music. When I first began work in the music I decided against the use of original folk material because I wanted the music to be all of one piece. Therefore I wrote my own spirituals and folksongs. But they are still folk music \u2013 and therefore, being in operatic form, Porgy and Bess becomes a folk opera.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Written as a duet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Panv8OJjgHk\">Anne Brown and Todd Duncan<\/a> \u2013 as Bess and Porgy \u2013 performed \u2018I Loves You, Porgy\u2019 in 1935 and again for the opera\u2019s revival in 1942. But jazz vocalists including Billie Holiday soon began singing solo renditions; and Nina Simone\u2019s recording from <em>Little Girl Blue<\/em>, her debut album released in June 1958, proved her biggest hit and provided a foundation for her career. In the autumn of 1959, her version of the song reached number 18 on the Hot 100, and number 2 on the R&B chart.<\/p>\n<p>Another take on the song appears at the opening of the 1964 live album, <em>Nina Simone in Concert<\/em>. The performance displayed above was given in 1962. As the video lists in its opening credits, alongside Simone it showcases Paul Palmieri on guitar, Lisle Atkinson on bass, Warren Smith on percussion, and Montego Joe on conga drum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2018I Loves You, Porgy\u2019 features in Act 2, Scene 3 of Gershwin\u2019s opera. In fact, at the beginning of her performance, Nina sings lines from the \u2018Vendors\u2019 Trio\u2019 which appears earlier in the scene. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mymusicbase.ru\/PPL\/ppl49\/Lrc_4975.htm\">This is a medley<\/a>, with lyrics written primarily by Heyward, consisting of the parts \u2018Here Comes the Honeyman\u2019, \u2018Crab Man\u2019, and \u2018Oh, Dey\u2019s So Fresh and Fine\u2019:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u2018Crab Man\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>CRAB MAN<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I\u2019m talkin\u2019 about devil crabs<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I\u2019m talkin\u2019 about devil crabs<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I\u2019m talkin\u2019 about de food I sells<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>[\u2026]<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u2018Oh, Dey\u2019s So Fresh and Fine\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>STRAWBERRY WOMAN<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Oh dey\u2019s so fresh an\u2019 fine<\/em><br \/>\n<em> An\u2019 dey\u2019s jus\u2019 off de vine<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Strawberries, strawberries, strawberries,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Oh, dey\u2019s so fresh an\u2019 fine<\/em><br \/>\n<em> An\u2019 dey\u2019s jus off de vine,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Strawberries, strawberries, strawberries<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nina rearranges the order, singing the \u2018Crab Man\u2019 lines after those from \u2018Oh, Dey\u2019s So Fresh and Fine\u2019. Either way, she thus begins the piece as a sales girl, calling out her wares. Her voice is disengaged and distant, plaintive but pure, and tremulous on the word \u2018vine\u2019. She brings out an aspect of the songwriting, \u2018just off de vine\u2019 homophonous with \u2018just off divine\u2019, establishing from the outset a discrepancy between hopes and ideals and a bitter reality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The music slows and shifts as she repeats the phrase \u2018devil crabs\u2019. These crabs are a distraction from more pressing thoughts, but they evoke a memory, and now she swirls and segues from a recollection of her daddy to think of Porgy. \u2018I Loves You, Porgy\u2019 begins \u2013 \u2018Porgy, don\u2019t you know I love you \/ Don\u2019t let him take me \/ Don\u2019t let him handle me \/ And drive me oh so mad\u2019 \u2013 and Nina\u2019s voice at once deepens into a profound melancholy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nina had always considered herself a pianist. She began playing by ear at the age of three, and studied classical piano before applying to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?t=12&v=ANTNiJ2zJlc\">Retaining the belief that her rejection had been made on the grounds of race<\/a>, she only began singing when, playing the clubs of New York, she found that gigs and money were easier to come by if she committed to use her voice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Her piano playing here is perfectly paced, steadily unfurling with the words of the song before an interlude.\u00a0When she resumes singing, her voice is accompanied deliberately by the bass and percussion. Navigating blindly but resolutely \u2013 \u2018But when he comes I know \/ I\u2019m gonna have to go\u2019 \u2013 her perseverance is rewarded by moments of calm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Extending the first note, Nina returns to \u2018Oh, Dey\u2019s So Fresh and Fine\u2019. She elaborates now a vision of a happier future with Porgy, replete with \u2018Strawberries for breakfast \/ And devil crabs too\u2019. And buffeted and sustained by the cymbal, the performance drives to a crashing affirmation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of those songs which became standards and entered into the Great American Songbook from the folk opera Porgy and Bess, few have inspired such vital renderings as \u2018I Loves You, Porgy\u2019. 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