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 ...

Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for our real national anthem. Not the one inspired by the 1814 British attack on Fort McHenry, set to the tune of an English drinking song and featuring a high note, ...

Re “A Chestnut Stuck in Time: Nostalgia Stymies Fusion,” by Ethan Iverson (Arts & Leisure, Jan. 28), about “Rhapsody in Blue” at 100: Mr. Iverson’s article saddles Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” with ...

In 1924, when George Gershwin composed “Rhapsody in Blue,” virtually no one used the term “classical” music. The phrase that was then employed was “concert music.” To most of America, there was dance ...

First there was a clarinet trill — like a cat shaking off sleep. Then the cat stret-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-tched itself — from a low F to a high Bb. And the world of concert music changed forever. That shock ...

Albany Symphony with director David Alan Miller conducting. In honor of its 100th birthday, “Rhapsody in Blue” will be performed in its original form by pianist Kevin Cole and Albany Symphony in ...

To the editor: Thanks to Gustavo Arellano for the tribute to George Gershwin and his “messy” masterpiece, “Rhapsody in Blue.” Despite criticism of this work, performers will play and audiences will ...

This week on New Music Friday, NPR Music's Felix Contreras and WRTI's Nate Chinen talk about a bundle of adventurous, thrilling albums out this week that cross genres, including new work by Gaby ...

"My idea for the concert," Whiteman wrote in his autobiography, "was to show these skeptical people the advance which had been made in popular music from the day of the discordant early jazz to the ...