Saluting the enduring power of F Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece at 100... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Boats Against the Current, by Roslyn Dee above.
The young man looks at me, somewhat bewildered, and so I repeat my request. Very slowly. 'The…Great…Gatsby,' I say with deliberate pauses between the words. ‘F… Scott… Fitzgerald.’ Still the blank gaze...
The RTÉ Concert Orchestra are celebrating of 100 years of The Great Gatsby on Thursday 10th April at the National Concert Hall, in a night of indulgent glamour of the Jazz Age, with full orchestral performances of sensational musical treasures of the 1920's - find out more here
