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Article: NEWS LITE : `RHAPSODY' GETS RESTORED; FULL GERSHWIN PIECE PERFORMED.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- June 12, 1997
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``Rhapsody in Blue'' is four minutes longer - just the way George Gershwin wrote it.
On Wednesday, the Boston Pops Orchestra was premiering a newly restored version of the American classic.
Like the piece Gershwin played for the first time Feb. 3, 1924, it has 50 more measures than the ``Rhapsody'' that has become so famous.
The score was altered in the 1920s by a commercial publisher who thought it was too hard to play.
``Gershwin had built all his little bridges between the parts the way they were supposed to go and his editors just cut it up,'' said Alicia Zizzo, the concert pianist and composer who searched out Gershwin's original ...