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 ...
One hundred years ago, New Yorkers packed the city's Aeolian Hall to see a highly publicized concert called, "An experiment on modern music." Luminaries included composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, ...
Jeffrey Biegel's newly commissioned orchestral work, Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue, has become the largest nationwide ...
Nearly nine decades after his death at 38 years old, George Gershwin remains one of the most celebrated and influential American composers. Dr. Thomas Cimarusti, Professor of Music History at Florida ...
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 ...
Experimenting in modern music: composer George Gershwin - Evening Standard/Getty Images At the turn of 1924, all of musical New York was agog at the prospect of an “Experiment in Modern Music”. The ...
"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 ...
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