It took George Gershwin just 10 days to pen the American classic. GAB Archive/Redferns via Getty Images by Ryan Raul Bañagale, Colorado College February 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 … Continued

The post George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is a story of jazz, race and the fraught notion of America’s melting pot appeared first on New Pittsburgh Courier.