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Porgy and Bess. Ambassadors at Large
WoIfert, Ira | May 19, 1956 issue

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In the negotiations now going on in Geneva between the U.S. and China, a bargaining point is "Porgy and Bess." This is only one of the unexpected roles the twenty-year-old folk opera has played recently. For the last four years it has been functioning as a kind of guided missile in the cold war. People are paying $150 for tickets to "My Fair Lady." President Dwight D. Eisenhower himself, wrote Blevins Davis, president of the non-profit corporation that produces "Porgy and Bess" said that the work is a serious and enduring one.

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PORGY & Bess (Music); OPERA; INTERNATIONAL relations; UNITED States -- Foreign relations; CHINA -- Foreign relations; UNITED States; CHINA
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