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☆ Opinion | No, ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ Is Not ‘the Worst’
  + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( John Mcwhorter | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Gershwin intended the rhapsody to fuse the respective powers of classical music and jazz. In the article I cited above, “The Worst Masterpiece: ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ at 100,” Iverson offers an intriguing take: that “Rhapsody in Blue,” while having its charms, is just too square to merit being played as often as it is. He believes the rhapsody isn’t truly jazzy enough, and specifically that it only lightly dwells in African-based rhythm. But to Gershwin, the rhapsody was precisely what it needed to be. I resolved, if possible, to kill that misconception with one sturdy blow.” So while the rhapsody certainly has its foot-tapping sections, it also sails, rests, jolts and soars.
Persons: George Gershwin’s, tony, Paul Whiteman, Gershwin, Ethan Iverson, ” Iverson Organizations: Times, Aeolian Locations: Manhattan
☆ The Lyrical Century of Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
To the Editor:Re “A Chestnut Stuck in Time: Nostalgia Stymies Fusion,” by Ethan Iverson (Arts & Leisure, Jan. 28), about “Rhapsody in Blue” at 100:Mr. Iverson’s article saddles Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” with the task of not only changing music history (which it did) but also singularly overhauling Western music pedagogy. No artist in any medium could accomplish this, so I’m not sure why Mr. Iverson is holding poor Gershwin to this unrealistic standard. What the article did do was make me listen to “Rhapsody in Blue,” twice, for the first time in about 20 years. Mr. Iverson finds the work “naïve and corny” — points he does not elaborate upon — but I was struck by what a formal miracle the piece is. Like Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring,” written 11 years earlier, Gershwin’s “Rhapsody” holds together through the savvy repetition of varied and memorable material.
Persons: Ethan Iverson, I’m, Iverson, Gershwin, ”, Stravinsky’s, Mr, — Organizations: Arts & Leisure
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