{"id":11493,"date":"2010-06-03T08:30:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T12:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=11493"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:27:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:27:36","slug":"gershwins-rhapsody-in-blue-for-your-toronto-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/06\/03\/gershwins-rhapsody-in-blue-for-your-toronto-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Gershwin&#8217;s Rhapsody in Blue for your Toronto morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"600\" height=\"481\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/I9nG2KyEp2A&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/I9nG2KyEp2A&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"600\" height=\"481\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This may be a cliche, but I&#8217;ve always loved Gershwin&#8217;s <em>Rhapsody in Blue<\/em> because it sounds like a city. Well, it sounds like New York, or some 1920s metropolitan metropolis New York. Looking for a YouTube version of it last night, I found this animation I hadn&#8217;t seen before. It&#8217;s unapologetically big city and unapologetically New York. I encourage you to watch the entire thing. You&#8217;ll need one less coffee today if you do. It&#8217;s stuff like this that makes you (me) realize other people love cities and all their ridiculous layers as you (I) do. (Click on the above to see &#8212; make sure you go full screen)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may be a cliche, but I&#8217;ve always loved Gershwin&#8217;s Rhapsody in Blue because it sounds like a city. Well, it sounds like New York, or some 1920s metropolitan metropolis New York. Looking for a YouTube version of it last night, I found this animation I hadn&#8217;t seen before. 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