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aria de la ópera Porgy and Bess, compuesta por George Gershwin, letra de DuBose Heyward
"Summertime" es un aria compuesta en 1934 por George Gershwin para la ópera Porgy and Bess de 1935. La letra, en dos estrofas, es de DuBose Heyward, el autor de la novela Porgy en la que se basa la ópera.
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
“The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.”
“Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.”
“Heat, ma'am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.”
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