"I Loves You, Porgy" is the second duet from Porgy and Bess I've transcribed.
Where "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" is almost totally jouyous and hopeful, this
duet is much more doubting, forboding and tortured. While in the last bars
both express very strongly their love for each other, the final orchstral
chords hint at the tragedy to unfold.

"Porgy and Bess" premiered in New York on October 10, 1935, two years before
Gershwin's death. It was the first American opera, and to this day probably
still the most successful. It created a great tragic love story among black
Americans, drawing heavily on musical experience of that community without
just being a "folk opera". Gershwin was very much a composer of his time (he
knew Sch”nberg personally). While he used the jazz idiom to contextualise
the drama, his harmonies and rhythms transcend blues chords by far.

Michael Bednarek <mb@mbednarek.com> http://mbednarek.com/