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    Gustavo Arellano: Why we need 'Rhapsody in Blue' more than ever as it turns 100

    LOS ANGELES — I'm not sure when I first listened to George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," which premiered 100 years ago this week, from start to finish. Snippets had played throughout the soundtrack of my life as a child and teen — the opening ceremony of the 1984 Olympics at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum, random cartoons, commercials for United Airlines, cameos in Disney productions. It's one of ...
    by Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times Feb 14, 2024 4 minutes
    American composer George Gershwin sitting at a piano making an alteration to the score for "Porgy and Bess."

    LOS ANGELES — I'm not sure when I first listened to George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," which premiered 100 years ago this week, from start to finish.

    Snippets had played throughout the soundtrack of my life as a child and teen — the opening ceremony of the 1984 Olympics at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum, random cartoons, commercials for United Airlines, cameos in Disney productions. It's one of those classical pieces, like Beethoven's Fifth and Ninth symphonies and Bach's spooky Toccata and Fugue in D minor, that long ago left orchestra halls to entrench themselves in the American psyche.

    When I finally

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