Thank you. And how did you guys work to develop both your individual characters and their relationship? Bess is a fiery woman who often finds herself on the outside of things.And I don't have any difficulty understanding that point of view.
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styles he brought in the Gospel Choir of Golden Gate quartet and Mitchell's Christian singers his childhood Idols Bessie Smith and James P Johnson the Boogie Woogie pianists Pete Johnson Albert Ammons the Jazz groups of count bazy and Sydney bash and to represent the southern folk Blues big bill bruny from a plantation in Arkansas his
will eventually come to the table of its own valition and that the US won't have to return to armed conflict. Earlier, Scott Besson said he thinks it's very unlikely the US returns to any sort of large-scale combat operations and instead lets these economic sanctions take hold over time.
They experienced the invasive medical examinations, the grueling interrogations, and they also Ernest Bessig, a lawyer for the ACLU, approached Korematsu and asked him whether he'd be willing to put his case forward as a test case to consider whether the executive order was
which John bought in 1922 at age 12 his musical perspective was similarly enriched by witnessing the great blue singer Bessie Smith at the peak of her vocal powers and popularity at the alambra theater in Harlem a few years later by the late 1930s having excuse me by the late 1930s having followed a path
Because into his life comes love in the form of a woman named Bess . And "Porgy and Bess " is also about the community of Catfish Row. And you get to meet the good folks and the bad folks, the church going ladies and the scallywag men.
Well, the family has come to realize that opera is a kind of specialized taste. And "Porgy and Bess " has such a wonderful universality that we wanted to find a team and put together a team that could bring "Porgy and Bess " back as a Broadway musical.
Alvin, hello. In "Porgy and Bess ," Crown is the antagonist. But his relationship with Bess isn't fully straightforward. What do you think draws Bess to Crown?
But I think Crown is misunderstood, I think. He loves Bess in his own way. But one thing I would love to say is that we all know that person in the community who is that guy.
As Nate was saying earlier, they are good together. But Crown and Bess are not. But for whatever reason, that toxic, drug induced haze and love is why they're together.
Really knowing the inner tracks of the ensemble as well as we do, we understand the real strength that Porgy gains is from the community. The real strength that Bess will find when she's redeemed-- oh, she messes it up by the end. But they come for her, to heal her, and to give your body weight to the women in the cast.
And there you can see that daddy and mama looking over their baby. shortly after Porgy and Bess get together for the first time.
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I didn't have the language until he said that. And I read Bessel's book, "The Body Keeps the Score." And I got my hands on all this research about how trauma lives in the body and how it requires the developing brain of a child and that I wasn't a bad person.
Our whole mind/brain existence is an interpersonal existence. And I called Bessel.
Our whole mind/brain existence is an interpersonal existence. And I called Bessel, and I was really in a-- I was scared about what was going on.
Because in the 1880s and '90s, we had women become professional saxophone soloists. This is Bessie Mecklem. She and her uncle formed a harp and saxophone duet in New Jersey.
At Alice Dean's, Billie Holiday heard Bessie Smith, the Empress of the blues. Billie claimed Bessie Smith, along with Louis Armstrong, as one of her seminal influences. Billie would later record one of Bessie Smith's famous songs, "'Taint Nobody's Business If I Do," to her own great acclaim.
Or like Poe, your obit written by the enemy Griswold declares in print, few will grieve. There's Bessie Smith in her unmarked grave. Let biographers flock to the clever and pretty, declare us old, drab, utterly last season.
And "Porgy and Bess " has such a wonderful universality that we wanted to find a team and put together a team that could bring "Porgy and Bess " back as a Broadway musical. And we picked this lady here on my left.
But his relationship with Bess isn't fully straightforward. What do you think draws Bess to Crown? And does Crown have any redeeming qualities?
And we also know that couple that shouldn't be together. And that is Crown and Bess . Because they have that toxic relationship, that they don't feed each other well.
So he brings the party to Catfish Row. But he's also directly responsible for Bess 's downfall. Yeah, and can you tell a little bit more about how he influences that narrative?
Billie claimed Bessie Smith, along with Louis Armstrong, as one of her seminal influences. Billie would later record one of Bessie Smith's famous songs, "'Taint Nobody's Business If I Do," to her own great acclaim. When Billie Holiday turned 13, Sadie began working at a proper whorehouse called Florence's inside of New York City.
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For those who might not know, can you please tell us what the story of "Porgy and Bess " is all about? Yes. "Porgy and Bess " is a love story. It's set in Catfish Row, which is a neighborhood in South Carolina.
You get to see them survive a hurricane. BTW, Bess happens to be also involved with a guy called Crown. And so you get a little bit of a love triangle going on in there.
Can you tell us, who are the characters of Porgy and Bess ? Well, Porgy and Bess are two people that probably wouldn't normally be together. And through the course of the show and this story, some extraordinary events happen that bring them together.
And there you can see that daddy and mama looking over their baby. Why should an audience bother to come see "Porgy and Bess "?
What each of you have mentioned-- oh, Michelle, you have one more thing to add? Well, Bessel, can I quote you? I want to quote what you say in the movie which helped so many people, when I asked you the definition of "trauma."
Our whole mind/brain existence is an interpersonal existence. And I know how to do that through Bessel's research, through a meditation, through--
Women really making it in a profession that most people had just assigned to men. In fact, Bessie was the first saxophonist to record. In 1892 she made 10 cylinder sides at the Edison Studios in West Orange, New Jersey.
internet and I said really if you have something wrong with your health do you call your doctor and even the people who couldn't use computers said oh no I asked Bessie and she look she goes online and she finds out before I talk to my doctor it's like okay there's very few of us whose life has not been changed um in the last 15 years our
And of course, he's wrong. Because into his life comes love in the form of a woman named Bess . And "Porgy and Bess " is also about the community of Catfish Row.
And Todd Duncan said, not good enough. And Anne Brown, who was the original Bess , 19-year-old out of the Juilliard School, had never acted in her life. George plucked her out of Juilliard, took her into the show.
That was so great. Thank you. So you guys play Porgy and Bess . Can you tell us, who are the characters of Porgy and Bess ?
And there you can see that daddy and mama looking over their baby. Ladies and gentlemen, the cast of "Porgy and Bess ." Another round of applause.
For Sidney Poitier, right? That's right. In the movie "Porgy and Bess ." 1958. It's, kind of, hard to come by.
All of these people who were much more independent, strong actors. This time around, Trump has some really good adviserss, people like Marco Rubio and uh Scott Besson. He also has some staggeringly incompetent adviserss like Pete Hegath for example. But what they all share is that they are first and
Well, we still don't know the actual mechanics of what these new sanctions will look like. that's uh likely to be announced at a press conference this coming Monday. But earlier uh Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant essentially declared the strategy as one that either countries are with the US in its campaign against Iran or against it. uh what that means in practice. Uh one economic expert I've spoken to suggested
and Communities Act, signed into law recently in October 2018. And our final guest is Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, who has spent his career studying how children and adults adapt to traumatic experiences. In 1984, he set up one of the first clinical research centers in the US dedicated to the study and treatment of traumatic stress in civilian populations.
records was quite an event. At Alice Dean's, Billie Holiday heard Bessie Smith, the Empress of the blues. Billie claimed Bessie Smith, along with Louis Armstrong, as one of her seminal influences.
dramatically. The amount of information that's available to people. That little clay tablet there is one of the artifacts that led Denise Schmandt-Besserat to figure out where writing came from. Writing was originally about accounting, but it was later exapted to use to encode other kinds of knowledge.
later by the late 1930s having excuse me by the late 1930s having followed a path through black music from fan to critic to producer Hammond had engineered Bessie Smith's final recordings discovered Billy Holiday when she was 17 arranging her first studio session and brought count bazy Orchestra to New York a self-confessed dedicated radical he
I'm amazed. And finally, this version of "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess " has had an exciting journey-- the world premiere at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, followed by the Broadway revival that won the 2012 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival, pretty awesome.
Thank you. So you guys play Porgy and Bess . Can you tell us, who are the characters of Porgy and Bess ? Well, Porgy and Bess are two people that probably wouldn't normally be together.
And we're going to introduce this piece to them. Whereas people that are a little bit older than us, "Porgy and Bess " means a lot to them. But for a lot of younger audiences, they don't understand what "Porgy and Bess " is.
Whereas people that are a little bit older than us, "Porgy and Bess " means a lot to them. But for a lot of younger audiences, they don't understand what "Porgy and Bess " is. Is it Por-gee? Is it this, that?
Thank you, thank you. Alvin, hello. In "Porgy and Bess ," Crown is the antagonist. But his relationship with Bess isn't fully straightforward.