As Art and Dot, the couple at the center of Disney’s “Us Again,” dance through a rainy city enjoying their magically restored youth, one can quickly spot a drive-in theater displaying a giddy, plump ...

Tallis: A story of four lovers. Resident Choreographer Elizabeth Wistrich takes inspiration for her ballets from the music. This Ralph Vaughan Williams work came from a borrowed theme from his 16th ...

It was cold and snowy in New York City 100 years ago today, and Aeolian Hall, across from Bryant Park, was packed. Composers Sergei Rachmaninov and John Philip Sousa were in the audience, along with ...

Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for our real national anthem. Not the one inspired by the 1814 British attack on Fort McHenry, set to the tune of an English drinking song and featuring a high note, ...

A jazz musician considers the legacy and unfulfilled promise of George Gershwin’s catchy — or you could say corny — repertory staple. George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” premiered on Feb. 12, 1924, ...

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The opening notes of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” are quintessentially cinematic. The lilt of a seductive clarinet begins a recognizable birdsong. A brassy, deep trombone responds. The two ...

On August 5, 1924, Mayor Dan Hart of Wilkes-Barre proposed a new law. The Record newspaper said it was an ordinance “penalizing the playing of jazz on the streets and in public places, his purpose ...

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 the arteries of ...