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George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is a story of jazz, race and the fraught notion of America’s melting pot

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 ...
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'Rhapsody in Blue': After a century, Gershwin's musical melting pot still resonates

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 ...
Wall Street Journal

George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ Still Hits the Right Notes at 100

Feb. 12 marks the 100th anniversary of the most famous and familiar work of American classical music, the splashy “Rhapsody in Blue.” It came to symbolize the Jazz Age and made an international ...
The Conversation

Rhapsody in Blue: celebrating 100 years of Gershwin’s groundbreaking classical‑jazz masterpiece

George Gershwin’s 1924 composition Rhapsody in Blue is so timeless that it seems scarcely possible that he composed it 100 years ago. Its centenary offers us a special opportunity to celebrate this ...
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Stream Béla Fleck’s George Gershwin Tribute Album ‘Rhapsody In Blue’

Banjo great Béla Fleck released his George Gershwin tribute album, Rhapsody in Blue, today. The record arrives exactly 100 years after the innovative 20th Century composer/pianist unveiled his famed ...
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'Rhapsody in Blue': After a century, Gershwin's musical melting pot still resonates

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. "My idea for the concert," Whiteman ...