Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Composer George Gershwin is photographed in 1934 during a recording session at the CBS studio in New York. (CBS Photo Archive ) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guest pianist Conrad Tao joins the Jacksonville Symphony in January for "Rhapsody in Blue." We begin the new year with a program ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Rising star Japanese pianist Hayato Sumino takes on Gershwin's dreamy 'Rhapsody in Blue' in its 100th anniversary year. Look out for his self-duet on a melodica, and his genius improvisation on a ...

First there was a clarinet trill — like a cat shaking off sleep. Then the cat stret-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-tched itself — from a low F to a high Bb. And the world of concert music changed forever. That shock ...

Winter 1924 brought the deaths of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate, and a cultural breakthrough in New York. This episode follows how mourning, political upheaval, and ...