Rhapsody in Blue

The good kids become violinists in the orchestra, the cool kids play saxophone and join the big band – wasn't that how it was in school, and still is? Of course, it's a cliché. But big band and symphony orchestra are two very different worlds nonetheless. Here, however – for Gershwin's timeless classics – the two come together, along with Alain Altinoglu and the piano. Gershwin was the man who provided American music with both: the sophistication...