About This Song
About "Rhapsody in Blue" by Boston Pops Orchestra
The Boston Pops conjure a city waking in syncopated bursts—skyscraper shadows and taxi horns rendered in clarinet and brass. Gershwin's blue notes stretch between exuberance and melancholy, a tightrope walk over Manhattan's grid where the orchestra's shimmering optimism is pierced by a lone, searching phrase.