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Ferdinand Rudolph von
Grofé (March 27, 1892 –
April 3, 1972),
known as
Ferde Grofé (/ˈfɜːrdi ɡroʊˈfeɪ/) was an
American composer, arranger, pianist, and...
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rhapsody with
Gershwin playing the piano. Whiteman's
arranger Ferde Grofé orchestrated the
rhapsody several times,
including the 1924
original scoring...
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Grand Canyon Suite is a
suite for
orchestra by
Ferde Grofé,
composed between 1929 and 1931. It was
initially titled Five
Pictures of the
Grand Canyon...
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familiar piece in Whiteman's
repertoire was
Grand Canyon Suite by
Ferde Grofé.
Whiteman hired many of the best jazz
musicians for his band, including...
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found its way onto the
classical music concert stage.
Composer Ferde Grofé depicted the
birthplace of the
Mississippi River and the
Native Americans...
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Program music is a term
applied to any
musical composition on the
classical music tradition in
which the
piece is
designed according to some preconceived...
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alongside them. One of the
first prominent big band
arrangers was
Ferde Grofé, who was
hired by Paul
Whiteman to
write for his “symphonic jazz orchestra”...
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Grofé, best
known as the
orchestrator of
George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue,"
whose signature compositions were
portentous concert suites. But
Grofé...
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opening credits,
Grand Canyon is "a
pictorial interpretation of
Ferde Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite", much as the
animated segments in
Fantasia are pictorial...
- journalist, and diplomat,
created the Flag of
Belarus (d. 1959) 1892 –
Ferde Grofé,
American pianist and
composer (d. 1972) 1892 –
Thorne Smith,
American author...
