“Jazz, Love & Gershwin: A Century of Rhapsody in Blue” features the Marcus Roberts Trio and singer Catherine Russell. In the 1920s, the relatively new music genre known as jazz was rapidly becoming ...

On Feb. 12, 1924, George Gershwin gave the first performance of his Rhapsody in Blue with famed bandleader Paul Whiteman's band in New York City's Aeolian Hall. That concert was billed as An ...

The Vermont Youth Orchestra has joined a nationwide effort to commemorate the 100th anniversary of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue by premiering a new piano concerto in all 50 states. Youth ...

February 2024 marks the 100th birthday of George Gershwin's jazz piano concerto Rhapsody in Blue. Kevin Cole, revered interpreter of George Gershwin's fusion of classical and popular styles, will ...

“I’m a closeted jazz pianist,” says Jon Nakamatsu, the classical soloist who rocketed to fame in 1997 when he won the gold medal at the 10th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition with his ...

Feb. 12 marks the 100th anniversary of the most famous and familiar work of American classical music, the splashy “Rhapsody in Blue.” It came to symbolize the Jazz Age and made an international ...

First performed 100 years ago, George Gershwin’s great experiment defined the jazz age and took popular music in a new direction. By Phil Hebblethwaite In 1928, the American populist composer George ...

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 ...

When one of this country's greatest composers died at age 39, novelist John O'Hara said, "George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937. But I don't have to believe it if I don't want to." As is true for so ...

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, ...