Rhapsody in Blue
Jazz-classical orchestral fusion
Rhapsody in Blue is a 1924 orchestral composition by George Gershwin that blends jazz and classical music.
The piece, commissioned for a concert billed as "An Experiment in Modern Music," opens with a distinctive clarinet glissando and remains one of the most recognized works of American concert music.
It appears frequently in film soundtracks and as shorthand for New York sophistication.
- GershwinComposing brothers' surname
- jazzImprovisational American music genre
- jazz age1920s American cultural era
- orchestraLarge instrumental ensemble
- big bandLarge jazz ensemble
piano · clarinet · Manhattan · New York City · 1920s · Great Gatsby · Broadway · Tin Pan Alley · concerto · concert hall · swinging · glissando · syncopation · American · concert · Bernstein · improvisation · melody
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