With the wail of a clarinet, George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' electrified audiences 100 years ago. Today we still love it — and argue about it ...

The rhapsody was programmed as the culmination of a concert titled “An Experiment in Modern Music,” which proposed that jazz, then new to the American mainstream, was serious music worthy of a ...

Two-time GRAMMY Award-winning Albany Symphony is throwing a gigantic 100th birthday-party concert for Rhapsody in Blue, featuring Kevin Cole, the world’s foremost interpreter of George Gershwin ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — It’s a rare person who isn’t familiar with George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” It is the most performed of all concert works and the recognition of its clarinet ...

Albany Symphony with director David Alan Miller conducting. In honor of its 100th birthday, “Rhapsody in Blue” will be performed in its original form by pianist Kevin Cole and Albany Symphony ...

Why we need ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ more than ever as it turns 100 Composer George Gershwin is photographed in 1934 during a recording session at the CBS studio in New York.

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.

After it is over, audience members leap out of their seats for a standing ovation. Such has been the response to “Rhapsody in Blue” ever since its premiere 100 years ago, on Feb. 12, 1924.