In 1930, George Gershwin, together with his brother Ira Gershwin, was invited to go to Hollywood to provide the music for the film Delicious. After completing work on most of the film's songs and "The Melting Pot" sequence, George began sketching music to accompany an extended visual montage, where a character wanders the streets of New York. The initial title of this sequence was Manhattan Rhapsody, and renamed during the course of the film's production to New York Rhapsody, and finally to Rhapsody in Rivets. Gershwin completed the sketch just before returning to New York in late February 1931.
Tempo | A piacere |
Date of composition | 1931 (1951 re-orchestrated by Robert McBride) in New York, NY, United States |
Premiered | 1932, January 29th (Boston Symphony Hall) in Boston, MA, United States by George Gershwin |
First published | 1951? by New World Music |
Type | Rhapsody |
Tonality | F Major |
Approx. duration | 14 minutes |
Instruments |
Piano
Orchestra |
Autotranslations beta |
George Gershwin: Second Rhapsody en fa majeur George Gershwin: Second Rhapsody in fa maggiore George Gershwin: Second Rhapsody F-dur |