It Ain't Necessarily So George Gershwin / Arr. Henk van de Weijer

Titel / Title: It ain't necessarily so
Untertitel / Subtitle: from the Opera Porgy and Bess
Herausgeber / Publisher: Baton Music
Instrumentation: Tenor, Choir and concert band
Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen
Serie / Series: Baton Music vocal series

Gershwin's opera 'Porgy and Bess' contains many songs that have become popular in their own right, becoming standards in jazz and blues in addition to their original operatic setting. One of those is 'It ain't necessarily so' which is sung by Sporting Life and the choir. Sporting Life' is a drug dealer who expresses his doubt about several statements in the Bible.