Concertgoers gushed. Critics swooned. The work’s composer, 25-year-old George Gershwin—already lauded for his impressive output of jazz gems—was celebrated hither and yon. No less than ...

There was only a single performance of an exhilarating CSO concert this past Saturday evening. It attracted a packed house ...

George Gershwin has written 48 shows including Half-Past Eight (Composer), La, La, Lucille (Composer), La-La-Lucille! (Composer), Morris Gest's "Midnight Whirl" (Composer), George White's Scandals ...

The WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne with conductor Andris Poga celebrate the music of the USA with composers Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin, where sounds of the West and Jazz are mixed with the ...

The Washington National Opera’s stirring revival of George Gershwin's classic highlights the power of community and voice.

Francesco Nicolosi and the Kalòs Saxophone Quartet led by Gianfranco Brundo will be guests of the Maggio della Musica ...

Nearly nine decades after his death at 38 years old, George Gershwin remains one of the most celebrated and influential American composers. Dr. Thomas Cimarusti, Professor of Music History at ...

Most of his best-known songs were written with his younger brother, the pianist and composer George Gershwin. But Ira also wrote with Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern and Kurt Weill. My guest ...

George Gershwin meanwhile, precocious in everything—he was able to play piano before he had had a lesson—left school at 15 to work plugging vaudeville songs for a music publisher ...

One of many entered this year is Rhapsody in Blue (Harms, Inc. 1924), by George Gershwin--an incredibly groundbreaking work for its time, based on its merging of jazz and classical. The composition ...