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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

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 ...
NPR

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

It was cold and snowy in New York City 100 years ago today, and Aeolian Hall, across from Bryant Park, was packed. Composers Sergei Rachmaninov and John Philip Sousa were in the audience, along with ...
Yahoo

Rhapsody in art: First-ever Gershwin exhibit now at Artis―Naples' Baker Museum

A first-ever museum art exhibition is on display now in Naples. "George Gershwin and Modern Art: A Rhapsody in Blue" explores the musician's art collection, which has never been shown in a museum ...
WLRN

'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 ...
LAist

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

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