50+ Music<p>&quot;Summertime&quot; is an <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/aria" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>aria</span></a> composed in 1934 by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GeorgeGershwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GeorgeGershwin</span></a> for the 1935 <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/opera" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>opera</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PorgyAndBess" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PorgyAndBess</span></a>. The lyrics are by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DuBoseHeyward" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DuBoseHeyward</span></a>, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/IraGershwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IraGershwin</span></a>. The song soon became a popular and much-recorded <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/jazzStandard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>jazzStandard</span></a>, described as &quot;without doubt ... one of the finest songs the composer ever wrote ... Gershwin&#39;s highly evocative writing brilliantly mixes elements of jazz. <br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auQ9N294-js" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=auQ9N294-js</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>