“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 ...

The 100th anniversary of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” has sparked celebrations and thoughtful reappraisals of the musical milestone. First performed at Manhattan’s Aeolian Hall on Feb. 12, ...

Composer George Gershwin is photographed in 1934 during a recording session at the CBS studio in New York. (CBS Photo Archive ) I’m not sure when I first listened to George Gershwin's “Rhapsody in ...

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 ...

San Antonio’s Agarita Chamber Players will continue their 2025–2026 season with a free concert this Sunday featuring George Gershwin’s iconic Rhapsody in Blue performed by piano, strings and clarinet.

SYMPHONY HALL. AND GERSHWIN’S RHAPSODY IN BLUE, AS PLAYED BY THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. AND BOSTON MAYOR MICHELLE WU. GROWING UP PLAYING PIANO AND ALL THOSE HOURS OF SCALES AND PRACTICING, I NEVER ...

On August 5, 1924, Mayor Dan Hart of Wilkes-Barre proposed a new law. The Record newspaper said it was an ordinance “penalizing the playing of jazz on the streets and in public places, his purpose ...

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 the arteries of ...

It was cold and snowy in New York City 100 years ago today, and Aeolian Hall, across from Bryant Park, was packed. Composers Sergei Rachmaninov and John Philip Sousa were in the audience, along with ...

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 my life as a ...

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