George Gershwin claimed he frequently heard music “in the heart of noise” and said the idea for Rhapsody in Blue came to him ... soaring opening notes on the clarinet, to the razzle-dazzle ...

Every conductor who comes to the San Francisco Symphony brings something different to the music ... strutting clarinet solo at the beginning of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”?

George Gershwin claimed he frequently heard music “in the heart of noise” and said the idea for Rhapsody in Blue came to him ... soaring opening notes on the clarinet, to the razzle-dazzle ...