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 | | In 1915 Grofé was playing at the Portola Louvre in San Francisco where musicians would drop in after hours to hear his original arrangements and jazz improvisations. | | | One of the musicians in the audience was Paul Whiteman, whose orchestra Grofé joined in 1917 as pianist, permanently employed from 1920 for the next twelve years as pianist, assistant conductor, orchestrator and librarian. | | | In 1906 Grofé left home to work variously as a bookbinder, truck driver, usher, newsboy, elevator operator, lithographer, typesetter and steelworker, studying violin and piano in his spare time. |
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http://www.naxos.com/composer/btm.asp?fullname=Grofe,+Ferde
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| | Ferde Grofe Orch. works |
| | In his youth he studied piano and violin, played for dances, parades and picnics and began composing. | | | Arturo Toscanini and his NBC Symphony Orchestra made a recording in 1945 that quickly became a best-seller. | | | It surely is Grofe's LOUDEST music, beginning with "Thunder of the Waves," describing the masses of cascading water, and continuing with "Devil's Hole Massacre" in which the Indian ambush of a British wagon train in September 1763 is described quite vividly. |
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http://classicalcdreview.com/grofe.htm
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| | The Big Band Arrangers |
| | Grofé and his band were also heard on various radio shows including The Fred Allen Show (1934), The Burns and Allen Show (1935-6), and Saturday Night Party (1936-7). | | | Thanks to frequent rehearsals, Whiteman's iron discipline, and Ferde Grofé's delightful arrangements, the band became a "hit" with New Yorkers. | | | Grofe was the first arranger to come up with different orchestrations for the various choruses of a given song. |
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| | Modern American Music of Ferde Grofé Evie's Eden |
| | The Modern American Music of Ferde Grofé is part of our discount Music catalog. | | | Used Modern American Music of Ferde Grofé are in stock for only $12.37. | | | Discount pricing is subject to change, in order to get the Music Modern American Music of Ferde Grof at this reduced price, you must buy now! |
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| | :: The Youngstown Symphony :: |
| | The task of orchestrating the music to suit Paul Whiteman's orchestra (for which it was composed) was given to Ferde Grof who completed his work on February 4. | | | Due to the lack of time and because, after all, the Rhapsody was to be played by the Whiteman band (now dignified as the "Whiteman Orchestra"), it seemed imminently logical to have the band's arranger, Ferde Grof orchestrate Gershwin's composition. | | | Whiteman crowned himself as "King of Jazz" but his music's only commonality with true jazz was in Grof‚'s use of jazz-like solos for members of the band. |
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http://www.youngstownsymphony.com/oct03.html
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| | Ferde Grofé |
| | Grofé arranged music and composed original pieces in a symphonic jazz style. | | | Grofé's own works included Mississippi: A Journey in Tones in 1925, Metropolis: A Fantasie in Blue in 1928, and the Grand Canyon Suite in 1931. | | | Later, Grofé worked as an arranger of music by other composers, especially "jazzy-sounding" pieces. |
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http://www.sbgmusic.com/html/teacher/reference/composers/grofe.html
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| | GoHastings.com Item Information |
| | Music Work Note: Orchestrated: Ferde Grof This is an abridged recording of "Rhapsody in Blue". |
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http://www.gohastings.com/catalog/item/item.asp?prodid=36373724
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| | Music By Ferde Grof - Page 1 |
| | Search: Ferde Grof in music - Page 1 | | | Artists: George Gershwin, Ferde Grofe, Leonard Bernstein, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, John Corigliano | | | Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite; Gershwin: Porgy and Bess Suite |
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http://store.rbftpnetworks.com/artist_Ferde+Grof%E9
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| | Commentary Magazine - Gershwin, by Edward Jablonski |
| | ...Accustomed as he was to the ways of the musical theater, and being relatively inexperienced at orchestration, Gershwin left the job of scoring the Rhapsody to Ferde Grof, who was then Whiteman's chief arranger... |
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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V84I6P71-1.htm
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| | Grand Canyon Suite |
| | And Grof??????'s Grand Canyon Suite receives a sympathetic performance, though the acoustics of the Lincoln Center... | | | Grand Canyon Suite/Mississippi Suite ~ Ferde Grofe (Composer), et al... | | | The Grand Canyon Suite Homepage - GRAND CANYON SUITE - by Ferde Grofe. |
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http://www.grand-canyon-page.info/grand-canyon/grand-canyon-suite.html
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| | Music For Moderns V.1: 1927-1928 - Paul Whiteman |
| | Together, they popularised "symphonic jazz", a modern, concert-hall amalgam scored on classical lines, sophisticated orchestrations played by men in evening dress, controlled by a man wielding a baton, with nothing left to chance: classics devised - or rather, disguised - as jazz! | | | A number of Whiteman's best musicians also shone as arrangers. | | | In this experimentation, Whiteman was inestimably aided by the New York-born pianist (and ex-Los Angeles Symphony viola-player) Ferde Grof (1892-1972). |
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http://www.venerablemusic.com/catalog/TitleDetails.asp?TitleID=7255
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| | Ferde Grofé - Classical Composers Database |
| | Find more recordings for Ferde Grofé at Amazon.com | | | --> Look for sheet music from Grofé at SheetMusicPlus.com | | | American Modern composer Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofé was born into a talented family. |
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http://www.classical-composers.org/cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=grofe
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| | 'New World Jazz' (Music) - American Poems |
| | This disc showcases the vitality of orchestral jazz in various guises as it straddles that divide, from the music of American composers and European andeacute;migrandeacute;s to Hollywood film scores. | | | One of the real treats here is the account of Rhapsody in Blue in its first, seldom-heard version (as orchestrated by Ferde Grofandeacute; for a '20s jazz band). | | | This is one of the freshest, most absorbingly joyful versions of the Gershwin available, full of colors you will have likely never encountered, with an exuberantly inventive MTT at the keyboard. |
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http://www.americanpoems.com/B00000B9MO/New_World_Jazz.php
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| | BIG BAND ERA : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music |
| | Art Hickman (b 13 June 1886, Oakland CA; d 16 Jan '30) and his pianist Ferde Grof began arranging for saxophone choirs, combining aspects of the concert band with the potted-palm type of hotel dance combo. | | | Hickman composed theme 'Rose Room', had big hits on Columbia '20--21 but suffered from ill health. | | | Term describing popular music during the period c'35--47; also called the Swing Era. |
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http://www.musicweb-international.com/encyclopaedia/b/B117.HTM
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| | FretPlay music store - Classical Music : Ferde Grof |
| | Fretplay.com in association with amazon.com gives you the best music CDs, book, sheet music, DVDs and videos. | | | FretPlay music store - Classical Music : Ferde Grof | | | Browse tabs: # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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| | Ferde Grofé Sr. |
| | Thousands Cheer (1943) (song "Daybreak") (as Ferde Grofe) | | | Grand Canyon (1958) (from "Grand Canyon Suite") (as Ferde Grofe) | | | You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers. |
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http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0342928
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| | GERSHWIN, George : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music |
| | A second Gershwin Rhapsody is still rarely heard in Gershwin's original version. | | | Girl Crazy was filmed '32, '43 with Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, and '66 as the lamentable When The Boys Meet The Girls, with Connie Francis, Harve Presnell, and Herman's Hermits doing 'Bidin' My Time'. | | | Gershwin's more ambitious works began with Rhapsody In Blue '24, commissioned by Paul Whiteman, orchestrated by Ferde Grof (b Ferdinand von Rudolph Grof, 27 March 1892, NYC; d 3 April '72, Santa Monica CA). |
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http://www.musicweb-international.com/encyclopaedia/g/G26.HTM
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| | Art Hickman and His Orchestra |
| | However, by 1920, when Whiteman first recorded for Victor, his approach to music seems to have been rather different from Hickman's, owing to the services of arranger Ferde Grof. | | | Hickman had been the most celebrated bandleader in San Francisco while Whiteman was still a sideman there, and Whiteman's band at the Alexandria Hotel in Los Angeles in 1919 had almost the same instrumentation as Hickman's, except for having only one banjo and (in photos) two tenor saxophones. | | | According to Clyde Doerr in a 1970 interview, Jimmy Thompson and his partners, owners of the Palais Royal and several other New York night spots, had been trying unsuccessfully to get Hickman to stay in New York when the "Follies" ended. |
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| | Grof, Ferde |
| | Home Page » Music » Classical » Featured Composers, A-Z » (G) » Grofé, Ferde | | | Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; An American in Paris; Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite |
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http://www.beethovenian.net/LA173669P0-Grof%E9,-Ferde.html
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| | Ferde Grofé - InfoSearchPoint.com |
| | Ferde Grofé (born New York City, March 27, 1892; Died April 3, 1972 in Santa Monica, California) was a United States composer, pianist, and arranger. |
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http://www.infosearchpoint.com/display/Ferde_Grof%E9
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| | Ferde Grofé - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Ferde Grofé (New York City, March 27, 1892 – Santa Monica, California, April 3, 1972) was an American composer, pianist, and arranger. | | | He did many arrangements for Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, the most notable being his arrangement of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferde_Grofe
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| | Aaron Copland: Billy the Kid and Rodeo Suite/Ferde Grofé:Grand Canyon Suite |
| | Ferde Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite" was a "labor of love" as the skilled composer/arranger spent considerable time carefully depicting his impressions of one of the greatest natural wonders of the world. | | | Grofe had been a very successful arranger for Paul Whiteman and is still remembered for the very first orchestration of George Gershwin's "An American in Paris," premiered by Gershwin at the piano with Whiteman conducting in New York's Aeolian Hall in February 1924. |
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| | Remember The 70's:Greatest Hits Live |
| | Ferde Grof?, US composer (Grand Canyon Suite), dies at 80 | | | Ferde Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofe, composer, dies at 80 | | | Gil Hodges, manager (NY Mets), dies of heart attack at 57 |
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| | Alfred J. Stamm |
| | His father, who had such famous pupils as Ferdinand Rudolph von Grof‚ (Ferde Grof‚ - Grand Canyon Suite), tried to teach Al music, but later admitted Al was his worst pupil. | | | Alfred did not like his middle name however and never used it. | | | This may have been partly because Al was left handed and his parents tried to make him right handed as was the custom in that day. |
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http://www.oswego.edu/~stamm/stamm2.htm
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| | 'Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra' (Music) - American Poems |
| | His fondness for coloristic suites ranges from Ferde Grofandeacute;'s 'Three Shades of Blue' to Victor Herbert's 'Suite of Serenades' with different national inspirations. | | | This is an exceptionally good collection of Whiteman's work from 1921 to 1934, giving unusual insight into the range of his work. | | | He was an avid sponsor of George Gershwin's orchestral impressionism, and it's heard here in both the sway of 'South Sea Isles' and one of Whiteman's several recordings of 'Rhapsody in Blue.' --Stuart Broomer |
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http://www.americanpoems.com/B000000X1Q/Paul_Whiteman_and_His_Orchestra.php
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| | Grof, Ferdinand Rudolph von |
| | allfind.us // Arts // Music // Composition // Composers // G // Grof, Ferdinand Rudolph von | | | Last updated: Thu Aug 25 20:48:19 2005 GMT |
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| | CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of George Gershwin |
| | His larger-scale works, melodically remarkable as might be expected, suffer from his haphazard mus. | | | education and lack of grounding in counterpoint, theory, etc. (Rhapsody in Blue was orchestrated by Ferde Grofé, but Gershwin himself scored the later works.) He went for lessons to Henry Cowell and Joseph Schillinger, and there can be little doubt that had he lived longer he would have progressed to considerable symphonic achievement. |
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http://www.classicalarchives.com/bios/codm/gershwin.html
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| | GoHastings.com Item Information |
| | Please note that a publisher may run out of stock, or this title may go out of print. | | | Gershwin & Grof / Gershwin, Beiderbecke, Whiteman, et al |
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| | AOL Music: Ferde Grofé |
| | Nació Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofé en Nueva York. |
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