Timeline Tuesday 12 February 1924

Events on Tuesday 12 February 1924 1

• 1924 Rhapsody in Blue premieres in New York Gershwin's jazz-influenced concert piece debuts at Aeolian Hall George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premiered on 12 February 1924 in an orchestral arrangement by Paul Whiteman's band. The piece fused jazz idioms with concert-hall form and became one of the best-known American orchestral works of the century.