Concert pianist Gwendolyn Mok is channeling the Jazz Age patter of a famous radio show from that era of glamour and glitz, razzle-dazzle and rhythm: “Hello, this is George Gershwin, and welcome to the ...

The post FKA twigs covers Gershwin’s “Summertime” for BBC Radio 1: Watch appeared first on Consequence of Sound. George Gershwin’s “Summertime” is one of the most popular standards in the American ...

`George Gershwin brings us the spirit of the day in which we live modern life, with its complex problems, its progress toward better times,” Don Wilson (best known as emcee on “The Jack Benny Show”) ...

The broadcast will capture the 10th anniversary presentation of the evening of song that is written and performed by Felder. George Gershwin Alone will be broadcast May 2 on 98.7 WFMT in Chicago and ...

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. "My idea for the concert," Whiteman wrote in his ...

The July 2014 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” features a composer whose lasting works were created late in life, César Franck, and another ...

Songstress Patti Austin's newest CD, Avant-Gershwin, allows her to cover the classic and sometimes controversial music of legendary composer George Gershwin. Austin talks about her music with Tony Cox ...

In the performing-arts world, double bills can be a dime a dozen. Theater, opera and dance ensembles routinely perform several short works on the same program. A pause or intermission usually ...

The composer died young but left behind a remarkable and ever-popular legacy. The Gershwin moment “Rhapsody in Blue” is one of the most famous pieces of American classical music. Over the years, the ...

"There are so many bridges, which are so important in the history of art, in the history of the world." Louis Langrée is the music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, which has a history of ...