An Experiment in Modern Music: Rhapsody in Blue

by George Gershwin

$15,000 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

“I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise”-George Gershwin ORIGINAL PROGRAM FOR THE FIRST PERFORMANCE OF GERSHWIN'S RHAPSODY IN BLUE. About six weeks before the premiere of Rhapsody in Blue, George Gershwin was shooting pool at the Ambassador Billiard Parlor, on Broadway and 52nd Street when his brother, Ira, entered the hall carrying an early edition of the New York Tribune. Ira proceeded to

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