Title of a composition by George Gershwin (1898–1937), premiered in February 1924 in New York, which combines jazz with symphonic music. In Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin, who had previously composed light music for Tin Pan Alley and musicals for Broadway, captured the urban spirit of life in socially heterogeneous America at the beginning of the 20th century by melding a variety of musical forms and traditions. Gershwin, …
Rhapsody in Blue(3,848 words)
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Eisele, Theresa, “Rhapsody in Blue”, in: Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture Online, Original German Language Edition: Enzyklopädie Jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur. Im Auftrag der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig herausgegeben von Dan Diner. © J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart/Springer-Verlag GmbH Deutschland 2011–2017. Consulted online on 04 October 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2468-8894_ejhc_COM_0744>
First published online: 2017
First print edition: 20221116
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