Likewise, music historian Vince Giordano has opined that "the syncopation, the blue notes, the ragtime and jazz rhythms that Gershwin wrote in 1924 was really a feeling of New York City in that amazing era. The rhythm of the city seems to be in there." Pianist Lang Lang echoes this sentiment: "When I hear "Rhapsody in Blue", I see the Empire State Building somehow. I see the New York skyline in midtown Manhattan, and I already see the coffee shops Times Square."