Why contemporary musicians misinterpret Gershwin’s masterpiece
Experimenting with modern music: composer George Gershwin – Evening Standard/Getty Images Around the turn of 1924, all of musical New York was stunned at the prospect of an ‘Experiment in Modern Music’. The venue was the extremely luxurious Aeolian Hall, and the famous Paul Whiteman Band performed. It wasn’t quite the first experiment in combining … Read more