Critic's Notebook: Who really owns Gershwin?

"Who says that only Americans know how to play Gershwin?" asks Gramophone magazine this month as it hails a new Gershwin CD from the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the German orchestra that calls itself the world's oldest. "By this time possibly nobody," the British record guide answers its rhetorical self.

By Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times Music Critic

May 1, 2011