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A number of gentlemen of the press stood in the steel corridor of a trans-atlantic liner and collogued together in low tones. They had come to interview George Gershwin, ringmaster of fascinating ryhthms, who, last week, was commissioned to write a jazz composition for the New York Symphony Society. Critic-composer Deems Taylor had also agreed, at the Society's behest, to compose an orchestral work for its program next season; the august Director, Dr. Walter Damrosch himself, had announced that he would conduct the Society's famed...
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