The Second Rhapsody is a concert piece for orchestra with piano by American composer George Gershwin, written in 1931.
The Second Rhapsody was seldom performed in the twentieth century, and only in recent years has critical and popular attention turned to the work.
After completing work on most of the film's songs and "The Melting Pot" sequence, George began sketching music to accompany an extended visual montage, where a character wanders the streets of New York.
This editing was possibly done by Hugo Friedhofer, a staff musician at the Fox film studio who had worked with Gershwin on his early sketch of the Rhapsody.
On June 26, 1931, Gershwin conducted New York musicians and played the piano solo in a run-through of the Rhapsody.
The form most commonly heard today is a re-orchestrated version by Robert McBride created fourteen years after Gershwin's death.
It is also unknown if the critical score will also include McBride's subsequent reorchestration (in order to provide context to historical recordings of the work).