On January 26, the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance and the UM Gershwin Initiative presented a centennial concert of works by George Gershwin and his lyricist brother Ira ...

Lost sheet music from George Gershwin’s first full-length musical has resurfaced nearly a century after it was last performed. Jacob Kerzner, a researcher and musician at the University of Michigan, ...

Willie Nelson is set to release a new collection of songs penned by George and Ira Gershwin. The album, Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin, features well-known hits by the legendary duo, as well ...

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sara Bareilles, Joshua Henry, Jeanine Tesori, Jason Robert Brown and New York Times writers and editors pick 13 songs to seal the deal. Some of the best music I’ve ever heard was ...

The movie Rhapsody in Blue, a biography of George Gershwin, was released only eight years after his death from a brain tumor at the age of 38. It's a good subject: Gershwin wrote some of the best ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It took George Gershwin just 10 days to pen the American classic. GAB Archive/Redferns via Getty Images I’ve spent nearly two ...

George Gershwin, photographed in his 72nd Street apartment in New York in 1934. His "Rhapsody in Blue" premiered 100 years ago on Feb. 12, 1924. "My idea for the concert," Whiteman wrote in his ...

The contents of a box Kerzner uncovered at Amherst College ultimately contained George Gershwin's lost musical. (photo by Jacob Kerzner, courtesy University of Michigan Communications) It’s been just ...

Concerts MSO's "Gershwin!" promises an unforgettable night of lively entertainment Friday night, at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, I had rhythm, I had music and I had my man - in this case ...

Willie Nelson was the first country artist to receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize in 2015, a prestigious honor he shares opposite such names as Paul McCartney and Carole King for his ...

Lionel Richie may be planning to party, karamu, fiesta all night long on May 17 this year. That's when he'll be awarded the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. "This is truly an honor of a lifetime, and ...