The "Jazz Symphony"

George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” premiered just over 100 years ago. Since then, there have been many projects combining jazz and the symphony or jazz and opera. This course looks at how successfully jazz and classical genres have bent to each other’s ‘will’.  We’ll look at other early forays, such as Milhaud’s “La Création du monde” and the whole phenomenon of Third Stream as well as jazz in the opera house (“Porgy and Bess” or “Jonny Strikes Up”, for example). The work of Leonard Bernstein will be considered, as also classical music’s intersections with rock and pop.