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Here is what DI Dr. Norbert FRISCHAUF – high-energy physicist and Anchorman for Science, Technology & Innovation at EMCP – has to say about the reality of science:

It ain´t necessarily so from George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess

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In addition to numerous publications listed below as examples, the US jazz guitarist Mickey Baker arranged the song for the CD album “A Tribute To Gerswhin”. The Mickey Baker Trio feat. Mary Baker and the Konzertensemble Salzburg under the direction of Franz Königer played it live at the Zurich Opera House¹.

• 2023: VERTEX-TV (working title for a venture of the European Media & Content Pool) uses the song title as a slogan to point out connections and cross-references that are not obvious at first glance. It is important to always question what is proven and generally (sometimes wrongly) assumed – according to the motto: It ain’t necessarily so!²
• 1962: The first line of It ain’t necessarily so was used as an article title by Hilary Putnam and published in Philosophical Papers, Volume 1: Mathematics, Matter and Method in 1979.³
• 1943: The Danish resistance interrupted the German Wehrmacht’s victory announcements on the radio with a recording of the song.⁴

The melody serves as the theme for the role of Sportin’ Life, a drug dealer who uses it to express his doubts about various statements in the Bible. Gershwin was subsequently criticized by composer Hall Johnson, among others, for portraying African-Americans as unfaithful.⁵

The American pianist and musicologist Howard Pollack states that the phrase It ain’t necessarily so stands in place of Bar’chu et adonai ham’vorach. He points out that the melody and wording are almost identical to the Jewish blessing recited before reading from the Torah.⁶

Something to enjoy, relax and “reach for the stars”

Astrophotography in time lapse, designed by Rochus Hess.

Another piece of the puzzle that leads to many more questions and these in turn lead to many new pieces of the puzzle – a never-ending series of continuing stories. Let yourself be surprised. And also find the answer to the question of how high the probability of a collision with other galaxies is when Captain Kirk and his crew of the USS Enterprise are traveling through the vastness of space at tens of times the speed of light.

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Footnotes

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1. The album was released under K-Tel CD 3617. The Konzertensemble Salzburg (ZVR 935370090) is a formation founded in 1979 by Mag. art et phil. Franz Königer, Dr. Richard Menapace (LL.M. Harvard, lawyer at the European Patent Office) and the musician and cabaret artist Roland Libbach (pseudonym: Rolf van Lingen). ↩︎
2. Coming from Latin, vertex means corner, node or apex in the mathematical sense. In neuroscience, it stands for the apex region of the head. ↩︎
3. See Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780511625268, OCLC 958554375 ↩︎
4. See Rimler, Walter 2009,  George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait, Urbana, University of Illinois Press, ISBN 9780252034442, OCLC 265741730 ↩︎
5. See Ellen, Noonan 2014, The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess; University of North Carolina Press,  ISBN 9781469617534, OCLC 897353385  ↩︎
6. See Pollack, Howard, Gottlieb, Jack (2006-10-01): “Funny, It Doesn’t Sound Jewish: How Yiddish Songs and Synagogue Melodies Influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway and Hollywood”, in: American Music 24 (3), 364, doi:10.2307/25046037, ISSN 0734-4392, JSTOR 25046037 und 2007, George Gershwin: His Life and Work, University of California Press, p. 46, ISBN 9780520933149, OCLC 609850115 ↩︎