George Gershwin, date unknown. Photo via Library of Congress. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional ...

In 1924, when George Gershwin composed “Rhapsody in Blue,” virtually no one used the term “classical” music. The phrase that was then employed was “concert music.” To most of America, there was dance ...

It took George Gershwin just 10 days to pen the American classic. GAB Archive/Redferns via Getty Images I’ve spent nearly two decades researching and writing about this piece. To me, “Rhapsody” isn’t ...

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 ...

The short, playful "glissando," or "glide," up the scale was meant as a sort of joke by the clarinetist before beginning one of the hurried rehearsals in 1924. George Gershwin, the classical American ...

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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 ...

Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for our real national anthem. Not the one inspired by the 1814 British attack on Fort McHenry, set to the tune of an English drinking song and featuring a high note, ...