Loving George Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” is both easy and impossible. Its contradictions may be best captured in Truman Capote’s book. “Moses Are Heard” A shipment from a tour company at its historic stop in the Soviet Union in 1956. “Porgy” was like an allergen for the Russian authorities – its characters were erotic, God-fearing …

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