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 ...

Leonard Bernstein, Gunther Schuller and Andre Previn are just three who ... withdrawn after one performance in 1922. Rhapsody in Blue falls clearly into the three-movement fast-slow-fast pattern ...

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 ...

André Previn, who blurred the boundaries between ... Christmas carols with Julie Andrews and George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” with Andre Kostelanetz. But the classical world was never ...

Conductor and pianist Andrew Litton led the Grant Park Orchestra in the performance of "Rhapsody in Blue" Wednesday night.

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 ...

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 ...