George Gershwin's time in the Carolinas launched the musician on such a spree of creativity that it led to what some critics call one of his finest works. Getty Images On June 16, 1934, George ...

Jazz, that most American of idioms, has a cozy winter home in Miami, with festivals, series and individual concerts ...

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 Florida ...

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, as part of their 2023-2024 PNC Pops season, brought a heavy dose of “Fascinatin’ Rhythm” to Heinz Hall on Friday night with their Gershwin celebration. This ...

KEENE VALLEY/LAKE PLACID — Hungarian composer Jenö Hubay’s “Maggiolata” (Song of May) was the catalyst for “Spring Serenade,” a seasonal program of vocal duets and instrumental solos spanning the ...

Four songs by George and Ira Gershwin, Betty Boop, Nancy Drew, and many more are among the intellectual properties that have ...

The Knights, the contemporary chamber orchestra, is continuing its Rhapsody commissioning project this season at Carnegie Hall. The project was inspired by the 2024 centennial of George Gershwin’s ...

LIMA — George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” might be 101 years old, but it is still familiar. It will be front and center in the Lima Symphony Orchestra’s season finale concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, ...

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American Scholar magazine gushed: “Among the pop culture stars of the mid-20th century, few were as diversely talented as the inimitable Oscar Levant. Urbane and self-lacerating, Levant cultivated a ...

Soprano Angel Blue as Bess and bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as Porgy in HGO's productionof Porgy and Bess. Credit: Michael Bishop When George Gershwin died in Hollywood in 1937 at the age of 38 from a ...