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if a sonata is a piece of music with more
than one section, by definition a rhapsody
is not a sonata, a rhapsody has only one
section, only one movement, all that is
required, therefore, essentially, of a
rhapsody, is that it be – a subjunctive
here, incidentally, the mood of aspiration,
high hopes, ideals – that it be, I reiterate,
rhapsodic
in the spirit of juxtaposition, here are two
rhapsodies, the first, George Gershwin’s
how are they different, you tell me
I’ll just point out that the one seems, to
my ears, steeped still in the Romantic
Period, the early 19th Century, despite
its publishing date, 1934, the other,
earlier, composition, 1924, sounds like
full blown, in comparison, 20th Century
America, the future
Old Europe, in other words, meets the
New World, however chronologically
counterintuitively
listen, you can hear all of it, both are,
either era, extraordinary, time is what
eventually tells
R ! chard
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