Tuesday, February 12, 1924. Rhapsody In Blue.

Rhapsody In Blue, a jazz masterpiece, premiered today.  It was written by George Gershwin for Paul Whiteman, for "An Experiment in Modern Music". That event occured on this day in Aeolian Hall, New York City.

It's a masterpiece.  Indeed, it competes for the title of greatest American musical composition.

It's never aged, and indeed, was used relatively recently by United Airlines in its television commercials.

Indeed, that overlapped a bit with their net based and on board commercials that featured sports broadcasting figure Katie Nolan, who recently was a finalist on Celebrity Jeopardy.

 Coolidge put firing Denby on ice, for the time being.