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 ...
What: 'Nice Work if You Can Get It' When: Tuesday, Feb. 10, through Sunday, Feb. 15. Where: Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center. Tickets: Prices range from $25-$97. Tickets are ...
A University of Michigan researcher stumbled upon the full orchestral score for La, La, Lucille, the composer’s first complete musical. Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers like you to ...
The Grammy winner was awarded the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday Julia Moore is a TV writer-reporter at PEOPLE. A graduate of Northwestern ...
Three times now George Gershwin has set foot over the line that divides formal and informal music; three times taken his own jazz notions, compounded them seriously and presented them, not for any ...
Juliet Ewing's sold-out CD release show at Chelsea Table + Stage delivered an exciting 75 minutes of some of Gershwin's ...
In a surprise union of two quintessentially American composers from different eras, one the 1960s mastermind of “Good Vibrations,” the other the Jazz Age creator of “Rhapsody in Blue,” former Beach ...
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 ...