Rhapsody in Blue

On this day in 1924 George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premiered at the Aeolian Hall, NY, in a concert entitled "Experiment in Modern Music" held by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra. 


A rhapsody in music is a one-movement work that is episodic yet integrated, free-flowing in structure, featuring a range of highly contrasted moods, colour, and tonality. An air of spontaneous inspiration and a sense of improvisation make it freer in form than a set of variations. Wikipedia