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Celebrating 100 years of Gershwin’s groundbreaking classical-jazz masterpiece, Rhapsody in Blue

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MIL-OSI Global: Rhapsody in Blue: celebrating 100 years of Gershwin s groundbreaking classical-jazz masterpiece

MIL-OSI Global: Rhapsody in Blue: celebrating 100 years of Gershwin s groundbreaking classical-jazz masterpiece
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Rhapsody in Blue: celebrating 100 years of Gershwin s groundbreaking classical-jazz masterpiece

With his highly original melodic gift, Gershwin blended jazz and classical elements to create the iconic and enduring Rhapsody in Blue.

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Why today s musicians are getting Gershwin s masterpiece wrong

At the turn of 1924, all of musical New York was agog at the prospect of an “Experiment in Modern Music”. The venue was the exceedingly plush Aeolian Hall, and the famous Paul Whiteman Band was performing. It wasn’t quite the first experiment in combining jazz and classical music – Whiteman had recently caused a stir by mingling songs from modernist composers such as Schoenberg, Milhaud and Bartok with jazz songs by Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern and Gershwin.

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Rhapsody in Blue at 100: who is getting Gershwin s masterpiece wrong

We must give up on authenticity and encourage pianists and conductors to play fast and loose with the score, the way they used to

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