The 18-time Grammy Award-winning musician will play with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as part of the Neranenah series, which honors Jewish musicians like George Gershwin.

The opening notes of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” are quintessentially cinematic. The lilt of a seductive clarinet begins a recognizable birdsong. A brassy, deep trombone responds. The ...

It was the opening salvo that introduced George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, a piece teeming with possibilities not only for the composer but for what American music could sound like. "Gershwin is ...

I’m not sure when I first listened to George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” which premiered 100 years ago this week, from start to finish. Snippets had played throughout the soundtrack of ...

For years, Fantasia 2000 flew under my radar ... A close second is Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, which captures 1920s Manhattan through a mosaic of narratives, including a construction worker ...

A couple of weeks ago in The Times, a seasoned musician and composer proposed that George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” was “corny and Caucasian,” a “cheesecake” that has “clogged ...

And the world of concert music changed forever. That shock opening of "Rhapsody in Blue," the "nasty" glissando that had no business in a temple of the arts, electrified audiences 100 years ago ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s an all-American extravaganza this holiday weekend at Severance Music Center. With Thanksgiving now in the books and December approaching fast, The Cleveland Orchestra ...

Gershwin’s contribution to the program, “Rhapsody in Blue,” would go on to exceed anyone’s wildest ... it would appear in iconic films such as Woody Allen’s “Manhattan” and Disney’s “Fantasia 2000.” ...

One of the 20th century’s most enduring, endearing works of classical music, George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” was written and premiered in 1924. This weekend, the Detroit Symphony ...