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Grofé conducted his Niagara Falls Suite as part of the ceremony marking the opening of the first stage of the Niagara Falls Power Generation project.
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Grofé and conducted
Today, Grofé remains most famous for his Grand Canyon Suite ( 1931 ), a work regarded highly enough to be recorded for RCA Victor with the NBC Symphony conducted by Arturo Toscanini ( in Carnegie Hall in 1945, with the composer present ).
Grofé conducted the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in his Grand Canyon Suite and his piano concerto ( with pianist Jesús Maria Sanromá ) for Everest Records in 1960 ; the recording was digitally remastered and issued on CD in 1997.
* Symphonic Jazz: Grofé and Gershwin, performed by the Harmonie Ensemble / New York conducted by Steven Richman ( Bridge Records 9212 ), playing:
* Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite and Concerto for Piano and Orchestra ( with Jesus Maria Sanroma ) with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Grofé.
* Hero and Leander ; Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Lorin Maazel.
In 1960, Grofé himself conducted the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in a stereo recording of the music, released on LP by Everest Records.
Grofé and Suite
Another familiar piece in Whiteman's repertoire was Grand Canyon Suite, by Ferde Grofé.
The " On the Trail " segment of Grand Canyon Suite was used for many years as the " musical signature " for radio programs sponsored by Philip Morris cigarettes, beginning with their 1933 program featuring Grofé and his orchestra.
* Ferde Grofé and the Grand Canyon Suite
In 1945, he led the orchestra in recording sessions of the Grand Canyon Suite by Ferde Grofé in Carnegie Hall ( supervised by Grofé ) and An American in Paris by George Gershwin in NBC's Studio 8-H.
The Grand Canyon Suite is a suite for orchestra by Ferde Grofé, composed during the period from 1929 to 1931.
Grand Canyon Suite on the album Refugee by the band Refugee has no resemblance to the suite by Ferde Grofé.
The Mississippi Suite ( Tone Journey ) is an orchestral suite in four movements by Ferde Grofé, depicting scenes along a journey down the Mississippi River from its headwaters of Minnesota down to New Orleans.
Grofé and part
Whiteman was perhaps best known for having premiered George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in New York in 1924, and the orchestrator of that piece, Ferde Grofé, continued to be an important part of the band in 1928.
Grofé and first
The music was first assigned to Victor Young, but Grofé was later brought in to complete the work.
Grofé was married to his first wife Mildred Grizzelle a singer in 1916 and divorced in 1928.
The first was in 1928 by Paul Whiteman and his Concert Orchestra, with Roy Bargy at the piano, of an arrangement by Ferde Grofé, for Columbia Records.
The piece was composed by Grofé in 1925 and first performed in the summer of that year by Paul Whiteman's orchestra at the Hippodrome Theatre, New York City.
The first full recording of the work, as Grofé composed and orchestrated it, was made in 2004 by Steven Richman conducting the Harmonie Ensemble / New York and released in 2006 ( Bridge Records 9212 ).
Grofé and .
Due to his lack of expertise in orchestration, the American composer George Gershwin had his Rhapsody in Blue orchestrated and arranged by Ferde Grofé.
* April 3 – Ferde Grofé, American composer ( b. 1882 )
Commissioned by bandleader Paul Whiteman, the composition was orchestrated by Ferde Grofé three times, in 1924, in 1926, and finally in 1942.
After a few weeks, Gershwin finished his composition and passed the score to Whiteman's arranger Ferde Grofé, who orchestrated the piece, finishing it on February 4, only eight days before the premiere.
Gershwin decided to keep his options open as to when Whiteman would bring in the orchestra and he did not write out one of the pages for solo piano, with only the words " Wait for nod " scrawled by Grofé on the band score.
Gershwin had agreed that Ferde Grofé, Whiteman's pianist and chief arranger, was the key figure in enabling the piece to be successful, and critics have praised the orchestral color.
Grofé confirmed in 1938 that Gershwin did not have sufficient knowledge of orchestration in 1924.
After the premiere, Grofé took the score and made new orchestrations in 1926 and 1942, each time for larger orchestras.
Ferde ( Ferdie ) Grofé ( 27 March 18923 April 1972 ) was an American composer, arranger and pianist.
During the 1920s and 1930s, he went by the name Ferdie Grofé.
Born Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofé, in New York City, Grofe came by his extensive musical interests naturally.
His father, Emil von Grofé, was a baritone who sang mainly light opera ; his mother, Elsa Johanna Bierlich von Grofé, a professional cellist, was also a versatile music teacher who taught Ferde to play the violin and piano.
Grofé left home at age 14 and variously worked as a milkman, truck driver, usher, newsboy, elevator operator, helper in a book bindery, iron factory worker, and as a piano player in a bar for two dollars a night and as an accompanist.
Grofé took what Gershwin had written for two pianos and orchestrated it for Whiteman's jazz orchestra.
In 1928, George Gershwin wrote a letter to ASCAP complaining that Grofé had listed himself as the composer of Rhapsody in Blue.
In spite of this misunderstanding, Grofé served as one of the pallbearers at Gershwin's funeral in 1937.
During this time, Grofé also recorded piano rolls for the American Piano Company ( Ampico ) company in New York.
In a review of a Whiteman jazz concert in New York, one writer said the music was expected to be pleasing, and " it proved so when it was repeated last night, in spite of the excessive instrumentation of Ferde Grofé.
During the 1930s, he was the orchestra leader on several radio programs, including Fred Allen's show and his own The Ferde Grofé Show.
Grofé was later employed as a conductor and faculty member at the Juilliard School of Music where he taught orchestration.
In addition to being an arranger, Grofé was also a serious composer in his own right.
conducted and Niagara
The United States conducted two failed invasion attempts in 1812, first by General William Hull across the Detroit River into what is now Windsor, Ontario, and a second offensive at the Niagara peninsula.
* The Niagara Falls Storage Site which contains radioactive material from part of the Manhattan Project conducted at Tonawanda, New York.
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