'Rhapsody in Blue,' Gershwin's musical melting pot, at 100 On Feb. 12, 1924, a sassy fusion of jazz and classical music debuted in New York, sparking a mutual exchange of ideas still debated today.

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 ...

It is easy, and accurate, to call “Rhapsody in Blue” naïve and corny. But, to be fair, it was still very early in the timeline of jazz and swinging Black music on record.

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 ...

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 rest of the piece is a kaleidoscope of ragtime, the blues and, above all, the music of Tin Pan Alley, the Manhattan strip where a teenage Gershwin had worked in the 1910s as a song plugger, an ...

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 ...