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James Levine, piano & director Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The great musical border crosser of the twentieth century, George Gershwin excelled in the fields of concert music and popular song alike. The question of Gershwin's status as a classical composer is a live and productive one. Some observers have pointed out the strong resemblances between his popular and concert idioms, and it is certainly true that for all his studies of the classics over the years, Gershwin rarely wrestled with the problem of large-scale form, which one might regard as classical music's most definitive quest.