The Blue Dragon, Robert Lepage's meditation on modern China, is playing at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. (Erick Labb/NAC) This article originally ran on March 31, 2009. The Blue Dragon is ...

It's been observed that (at least according to the traditional forms) Jazz -- _the_ American musical form -- is dead. It died, they tell us, of starvation. Jazz is at heart an improvisational ...

Read all about Rhapsody in Blue 1945 film featuring Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith, Hazel Scott, Anne Brown with Al Jolson, Paul Whiteman, and Oscar Levant. Directed by Irving Rapper.

The rhapsody was programmed as the culmination of a concert titled “An Experiment in Modern Music,” which proposed that jazz, then new to the American mainstream, was serious music worthy of a ...

Why we need ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ more than ever as it turns 100 Composer George Gershwin is photographed in 1934 during a recording session at the CBS studio in New York.

After it is over, audience members leap out of their seats for a standing ovation. Such has been the response to “Rhapsody in Blue” ever since its premiere 100 years ago, on Feb. 12, 1924.

Gershwin’s contribution to the program, “ Rhapsody in Blue,” would go on to exceed anyone’s wildest expectations, becoming one of the best-known works of the 20th century.

George Gershwin, photographed in his 72nd Street apartment in New York in 1934. His Rhapsody in Blue premiered 100 years ago on Feb. 12, 1924.

When “Rhapsody in Blue” was first performed at New York City’s Aeolian Concert Hall 100 years ago this month, it was a cultural watershed. Concertgoers gushed. Critics swooned. The work’s ...

George Gershwin's iconic concerto Rhapsody In Blue turns 100 this year. To mark the occasion, Béla Fleck, one of the world's greatest living banjo players, has released an album of his takes on ...