When Theron Brown was an undergraduate jazz studies student at the University of Akron, the thought of performing George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" was on the pianist's one-day wish list.

One of the 20th century’s most enduring, endearing works of classical music, George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” was written and premiered in 1924.

George Gershwin claimed he frequently heard music “in the heart of noise” and said the idea for Rhapsody in Blue came to him while travelling on a train. He poured the rhythms and noise of the ...