As orchestras around the country celebrate 'Rhapsody in Blue' throughout 2024, it’s important to think of the piece as more than just music.

Last year, he accomplished the dream. The banjo virtuoso and 18-time Grammy Award-winning musician will play his banjo-centric rendition of “Rhapsody in Blue” with the Atlanta Symphony ...

George Gershwin’s 1924 composition Rhapsody in Blue is so timeless that it seems scarcely possible that he composed it 100 years ago. Its centenary offers us a special opportunity to celebrate ...

The version of Rhapsody played on Friday, which will be repeated at 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, was not another reimagining. But sometimes it felt like one.

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.

On Oct. 4, Grammy Award-winning banjo player Bela Fleck displayed jaw-dropping virtuosity in his performance as soloist in “Rhapsody in Blue” with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in a packed ...