Growing up in New York City, George Gershwin’s musical gift became clear when he began to play a piano that had ... noise” and said the idea for Rhapsody in Blue came to him while travelling ...

The last pianist to play "Rhapsody in Blue" with the Akron Symphony Orchestra was Assistant Conductor Levi Hammer in 2012. The first, said Wilkins, according to orchestra records, was Akron's Pat ...

One of the 20th century’s most enduring, endearing works of classical music, George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” was written and premiered in 1924.

Growing up in New York City, George Gershwin’s musical gift became clear when he began to play a piano that had ... noise” and said the idea for Rhapsody in Blue came to him while travelling ...