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grasswire

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10. Aeolian Hall, NYC, February 12 1924

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Sat Jun 28, 2014, 07:24 PM

Jun 2014

Paul Whiteman Orchestra, George Gershwin at piano, for the debut of Rhapsody In Blue.

http://www.classicalnotes.net/classics/gershwin.html

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