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 ) ...

On Feb. 12, 1924, a sassy fusion of jazz and classical music debuted in New York, sparking a mutual exchange of ideas still debated today. 'Rhapsody in Blue': After a century, Gershwin's musical ...

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 ...

“Jazz, Love & Gershwin: A Century of Rhapsody in Blue” features the Marcus Roberts Trio and singer Catherine Russell. In the 1920s, the relatively new music genre known as jazz was rapidly becoming ...

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, ...

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 ...

I’m not sure when I first listened to George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” which premiered 100 years ago this week, from start to finish. Snippets had played throughout the soundtrack of my life as a ...

"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 ...