The Met Opera’s New “Porgy”: Restoring An American Masterpiece

Joseph Horowitz: “The modernist view of Gershwin the gifted dilettante is no longer heard.Concomitantly, American music historians, for whom Gershwin once barelyexisted, have flocked to Porgy and Rhapsody in Blue. Aburgeoning interest in the interwar fate of black classical music willsurely promote new understandings of Gershwin as a necessary interloperbetween “classical” and “popular” genres severed by 20th-centuryaesthetic currents.” – American Schol