Orchestrated by Ferde Grofe from the original two-piano version, FTP, what is this work commissioned from Paul Whiteman as a concerto for piano and jazz band, composed by George Gershwin?
The inspiration for this composition came on a railway, due to the "rattlety-bang that is so often stimulating to a composer." First performed in Aeolian Hall in 1924, clarinetist Ross Gorman improvised the famous opening glissando which replaced a simple chromatic scale. Orchestrated by Ferde Grofe from the original two-piano version, FTP, what is this work commissioned from Paul Whiteman as a concerto for piano and jazz band, composed by George Gershwin?
The inspiration for this composition came on a railway, due to the "rattlety-bang that is so often stimulating to a composer.
Rhapsody in Blue