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"Catfish Row", originally titled "Suite from ''Porgy and Bess''", is an orchestral work by George Gershwin based upon music from his famous opera. Gershwin completed the work in 1936 and it premiered at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia on January 21 of that year, with Alexander Smallens conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra. Gershwin played the piano part, including the piano solo in the opening moments. This piece preserves some of the darkest and most complex music Gershwin ever wrote. It should not be confused with ''Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture'', scored at the behest of Fritz Reiner by Robert Russell Bennett in 1942, and premiered by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 1943. ==Movements== # ''Catfish Row'' contains the Introduction, "Jazzbo Brown's Piano Blues", which was cut from the opera until 1976 (a motive from this music is first heard in the orchestral Introduction, which was actually composed later), and the first iteration of "Summertime" with a short coda. The coda consists of the opening bars of the "crap game" music, which immediately follows "Summertime" in the opera. # ''Porgy Sings'' contains one of Porgy's arias: "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin" and Porgy and Bess's duet "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" bridged by a cello solo (the introduction to the latter song). # ''Fugue'' contains the dark atonal music from the murder of Crown in Act III scene 1. # ''Hurricane'' features the music from the hurricane sequence (12 more measures than the R. R. Bennett ''Porgy and Bess "Symphonic Picture"'' medley). # ''Good Morning, Sistuh'' contains the Act III Prelude from the final scene of the opera, as well as the final song, "Oh, Lawd, I'm on My Way". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Catfish Row」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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