The Columbus Jazz Orchestra (CJO) will kick off its 2025-26 season with Bobby Floyd in Rhapsody in Blue, Oct. 10-12. Led by bandleader Byron Stripling, the orchestra will play hits of the Tin Pan ...

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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 ...

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 my life as a ...

"My idea for the concert," Whiteman wrote in his autobiography, "was to show these skeptical people the advance which had been made in popular music from the day of the discordant early jazz to the ...

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