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Composer George Gershwin is photographed in 1934 during a recording session at the CBS studio in New York. (CBS Photo Archive ) I’m not sure when I first listened to George Gershwin's “Rhapsody in ...
Re “A Chestnut Stuck in Time: Nostalgia Stymies Fusion,” by Ethan Iverson (Arts & Leisure, Jan. 28), about “Rhapsody in Blue” at 100: Mr. Iverson’s article saddles Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” with ...
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CBS News Sunday Morning recently presented a nice piece on the 100th anniversary of George Gershwin’s ...
A couple of weeks ago in The Times, a seasoned musician and composer proposed that George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” was “corny and Caucasian,” a “cheesecake” that has “clogged the arteries of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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