Column Post #7,300. One-hundred years ago on this date, the premiere of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, played by the composer with the work’s commissioner Paul Whiteman conducting Ferde Grofé’s scoring (he would make further Blue arrangements) at Aeolian Hall, New York City. | The first recording. Jorge Bolet. Siegel & Slatkin. Leonard Bernstein & NY Philharmonic at Royal Albert Hall.
