George Gershwin and the Rhythm of the Rails

What You'll Learn

• Learn what a rhapsody is — a free-flowing musical river that floods its banks and goes wherever its heart takes it, unlike a symphony which follows a strict map
• Discover how Gershwin blended jazz and classical music together — proving that the sounds of the street belong in the concert hall
• Understand how everyday sounds — train wheels, city noise, taxi horns — can become music if you listen the right way
• Learn about the famous clarinet glissando at the start of Rhapsody in Blue — a lucky accident that became one of the most recognized sounds in music history
• Discover that creating something new means being brave enough to ignore the people who say 'that's not how it's done'