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Virgil Thomson
Porgy is…an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen, a man who should never have attempted it has written a work that has a considerable power.

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  • Virgil Thomson, in Modern Music, November 1935.