VAIL – Renowned for penning some of the most important scores in both 20th century classical and popular genres, the Bravo Music Festival celebrates George Gershwin with a salute to his most popular ...

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 ...

The July 2014 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” features a composer whose lasting works were created late in life, César Franck, and another ...

Pianist Simone Dinnerstein. Photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco. Courtesy of Ms. Dinnerstein’s website. “Indie-Classical”, “Alt Classical”, “Nonclassical”… whatever you want to call it, George Gershwin may ...

When did “fun” become such a dirty word in classical music? “Fun” attaches itself to kids’ or pops concerts, or a slapstick opera staging, long before it would get pinned on your average night at the ...

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Feb. 12 marks the 100th anniversary of the most famous and familiar work of American classical music, the splashy “Rhapsody in Blue.” It came to symbolize the Jazz Age and made an international ...

The short, playful "glissando," or "glide," up the scale was meant as a sort of joke by the clarinetist before beginning one of the hurried rehearsals in 1924. George Gershwin, the classical American ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although it’s staple of 4th of July concerts and pops series, George Gershwin’s music rarely tops classical play lists, said Elgin Symphony Orchestra music director Robert Hanson. That unwritten rule ...