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I’ve always appreciated the dual experience of images when commissioning photography. Creative conversations are developed, logistical hurdles are cleared, and the shoot happens. Then a magic link ...
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. This weekend, the Detroit Symphony ...
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When “Rhapsody in Blue” was first performed at New York City’s Aeolian Concert Hall 100 years ago this month, it was a cultural watershed. Concertgoers gushed. Critics swooned. The work’s ...
I’m not sure when I first listened to George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” which premiered 100 years ago this week, from start to finish. Snippets had played throughout the soundtrack of ...
It's a long way from India to Broadway, but Bela Fleck makes the journey in high style for Rhapsody in Blue. It follows the altogether exotic As We Speak (Thirty ...
A couple of weeks ago in The Times, a seasoned musician and composer proposed that George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” was “corny and Caucasian,” a “cheesecake” that has “clogged ...
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I’ve spent nearly two decades researching and writing about this piece. To me, “Rhapsody” isn’t some static composition stuck in the past; rather, it’s a continuously evolving piece of ...
Another high ticket item – handwritten lyrics for the Queen hit "Bohemian Rhapsody," which the frontman autographed – sold for $1.7 million U.S. dollars. The pages contain a bit of little ...
Freddie Mercury's handwritten drafts for Queen's legendary hit Bohemian Rhapsody have sold at auction for more than £1.3m. Written on paper for the now-defunct airline British Midland ...