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. Pianist Conrad Tao joins the Jacksonville Symphony for the 100th anniversary of "Rhapsody in Blue." We begin the new year with a ...

“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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Béla Fleck has unlocked the intent behind his impending project. The decorated musician shared that his latest work revolves around George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. The impending set functions as a ...

It's a long way from India to Broadway, but Bela Fleck makes the journey in high style for Rhapsody in Blue. It follows the altogether exotic As We Speak (Thirty ...

"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 ...

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 ...