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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” premiered on Feb. 12, 1924, and has been enchanting audiences ever since.Credit...Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Supported by By Ethan Iverson Ethan ...

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 ...

Gershwin first found out he was meant to be writing ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ from a newspaper announcing its premiere... just over a month away. Here’s the remarkable story of its creation. George ...

When Theron Brown was an undergraduate jazz studies student at the University of Akron, the thought of performing George ...

The Santa Barbara Symphony concludes its 2023/24 Season with Rhapsody in Blue @ 100: Jazz Comes to The Symphony, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18 and 3 p.m. Sunday, May 19 at 3 p.m. at The Granada Theatre.

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 ...

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 ...

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. "My idea for the concert," Whiteman wrote in his ...

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. "My idea for the concert," Whiteman wrote in his ...