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1945 film featuring Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith, Hazel Scott, Anne Brown with Al Jolson, Paul Whiteman, and Oscar Levant. Directed by Irving Rapper. Newly remastered from 4K scans of ...

On August 5, 1924, Mayor Dan Hart of Wilkes-Barre proposed a new law. The Record newspaper said it was an ordinance “penalizing the playing of jazz on the streets and in public places, his purpose ...

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 ...

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In 1924, when George Gershwin composed “Rhapsody in Blue,” virtually no one used the term “classical” music. The phrase that was then employed was “concert music.” To most of America, there was dance ...

The Vermont Youth Orchestra has joined a nationwide effort to commemorate the 100th anniversary of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue by premiering a new piano concerto in all 50 states. Youth ...

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 ...