Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1016703 Composed by Dorothy Heyward, Du Bose Heyward, George Gershwin, and Ira Gershwin. Arranged by Edward Berden. Contemporary. Octavo. 11 pages. Edward Berden #5790435. Published by Edward Berden (A0.1016703). Porgy and Bess is an English-language opera by the American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin. It was adapted from Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward's play Porgy, itself an adaptation of DuBose Heyward's 1925 novel of the same name.