Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It took George Gershwin just 10 days to pen the American classic. GAB Archive/Redferns via Getty Images I’ve spent nearly two ...

When “Rhapsody in Blue” was first performed at New York City’s Aeolian Concert Hall 100 years ago this month, it was a cultural watershed. Concertgoers gushed. Critics swooned. The work’s composer, 25 ...

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 ...

On June 23rd, 1959, Leonard Bernstein and the Columbia Symphony took their places at the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn, N.Y. and made a landmark recording of Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue.' To celebrate ...

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"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 ...