From the Sunday Review section of the NYT this Sunday, a thoughtful piece by Joe Nocera on Porgy and Bess (on the occasion of a new Broadway production): Variations on an Explosive Theme ‘Porgy and Bess’ supplies a prism through which African-Americans have viewed their own history When George Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” — arguably … Continue reading “a word now shunned”