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Grofé was later employed as a conductor and faculty member at the Juilliard School of Music where he taught orchestration.
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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.
Another familiar piece in Whiteman's repertoire was Grand Canyon Suite, by Ferde Grofé.
Commissioned by bandleader Paul Whiteman, the composition was orchestrated by Ferde Grofé three times, in 1924, in 1926, and finally in 1942.
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.
Ferde ( Ferdie ) Grofé ( 27 March 18923 April 1972 ) was an American composer, arranger and pianist.
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.
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.
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.
In 1934, Grofé announced that he was working on an opera, to be based on the Edgar Allan Poe story " The Fall of the House of Usher ".
In addition to being an arranger, Grofé was also a serious composer in his own right.
Possibly as a result of his World's Fair theme, 13 October 1940 was designated Ferde Grofé Day at the American pavilion of the World's Fair.
The music was first assigned to Victor Young, but Grofé was later brought in to complete the work.
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.
Grofé was married to his first wife Mildred Grizzelle a singer in 1916 and divorced in 1928.
Ferde Grofé died in Santa Monica, California on 3 April 1972, at age 80, and was buried in the Mausoleum of the Golden West at the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.
The Concerto in F shows considerable development in Gershwin's compositional technique namely because he orchestrated the entire work himself, unlike the Rhapsody in Blue which was done by Ferde Grofé, the orchestrator for Paul Whiteman's orchestra.
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.
After its disastrous flop on Broadway, Blue Monday was reportedly renamed 135th Street when Ferde Grofé re-orchestrated it in 1925, with a concert performance at Carnegie Hall on December 29 under the direction of Paul Whiteman.
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" A writer of a later generation said " the Grofé and Gould pieces were the essence of slick commercialism ..."
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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.
In spite of this misunderstanding, Grofé served as one of the pallbearers at Gershwin's funeral in 1937.
' The Novachord Orchestra ' of Ferde Grofé performed daily at the Ford stand with four Novachords and a Hammond Organ.
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.
Grofé and orchestration
Due to his lack of expertise in orchestration, the American composer George Gershwin had his Rhapsody in Blue orchestrated and arranged by Ferde Grofé.
Grofé confirmed in 1938 that Gershwin did not have sufficient knowledge of orchestration in 1924.
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* April 3 – Ferde Grofé, American composer ( b. 1882 )
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.
After the premiere, Grofé took the score and made new orchestrations in 1926 and 1942, each time for larger orchestras.
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.
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.
During this time, Grofé also recorded piano rolls for the American Piano Company ( Ampico ) company in New York.
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