George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is a story of jazz, race and the fraught notion of America’s melting pot
- Written by Ryan Raul Bañagale, Associate Professor and Chair of Music, Colorado College
It took George Gershwin just 10 days to pen the American classic.GAB Archive/Redferns via Getty ImagesFebruary 12, 1924, was a frigid day in New York City. But that didn’t stop an intrepid group of concertgoers from gathering in midtown Manhattan’s Aeolian Hall for “An Experiment in Modern Music.” The organizer, bandleader P...