Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. "Summertime" is an aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera ...

Willie Nelson is set to release a new collection of songs penned by George and Ira Gershwin. The album, Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin, features well-known hits by the legendary duo, as well ...

Willie Nelson has earned another No. 1 album, but this time, it's on the jazz charts. His new record, Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin, debuted atop the Top Current Jazz and Top Traditional ...

Willie Nelson is releasing a Gershwin tribute album, and recently shared his cover of "Summertime," one of the more popular songs from George and Ira Gershwin. In the video clip above, Nelson is ...

With George Gershwin’s melancholy melody and DuBose Heyward’s colloquial poetry, the opening aria from ‘Porgy and Bess’ remains, 90 years after its premiere, among the most beloved songs in American ...

Willie Nelson was the first country artist to receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize in 2015, a prestigious honor he shares opposite such names as Paul McCartney and Carole King for his ...

Joni Mitchell fans, get your tissues ready. On tonight's PBS special, Joni Mitchell: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, her contemporaries such as James Taylor and Herbie Hancock ...

It’s hard to read a biography of George Gershwin, who died at 38, without feeling a sense of loss. But rather than bemoan the composer’s premature passing, Richard Crawford, a musicologist and ...

"Summertime" might be the opening word in George Gershwin's iconic song, but as Rob Kapilow points out to Performance Today host Fred Child, that's not where the music really starts. The eight ...

In some versions it’s a lullaby, in others a siren song. Filmmaker James Maycock explores Gershwin’s most recorded tune ahead of his BBC Four documentary on the subject. By James Maycock 23 November ...

Joni Mitchell was recently feted at an all-star tribute concert in Washington, D.C. as the recipient of the Library of Congress’ Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. During the concert, which will be ...