Gershwin's Rhapsody

Remember that famous clarinet glissando riff that opens George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue"? That wasn't Gershwin — it was his clarinetist, goofing around with Gershwin's original notes (Gershwin incorporated the "joke" into his score later). We'll hear Gershwin's Rhapsody, glissando and all, from Leonard Bernstein and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in our first hour.

Also, David Zinman leads the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in Robert Schumann's Fourth Symphony, while Norwegian cellist Truls Mork provides the foundation for countryman Edvard Grieg's String Quartet in G minor. Mikhail Pletnev conducts the evening to a close with the Russian National Orchestra in Prokofieff's timely "Summer Night."