Word: grofe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theWartburg" from "Tannhauser" Wagner *"The Royal Fireworks," Suite Handel *"Dance Macabre," Symphonic Poem Saint-Saens *"Slavonic Dance No. 6 in A-flat major Dvorak *"Bolero" Ravel SARITA Spanish Dancer Bulerias F. Moscoso Farruca R. Romero Sanjuanito R. Romero Granada A. Ross "Cracked Ice," Rhapsody Peggy Stuart (Orchestrated by Ferde Grofe) The Composer at the piano *Malaguena Lecuona-Grofe *"Wintergreen for President," from "Of Thee I Sing" Gershwin (Regular prices for balconies) *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...Father of Victory," MarchGanne Overture to "Oberon" Weber "Silver Shadows," Tango Repper Dance of the Comedians, from "The Bartered Bride" Smetana large from "Now World" Symphony Deverak Fantasia, "Aida" Verdi Songs by the Student Nurses Glee Club On the Trail Grofe Cole Porter Hits of 1937 Arranged by Lewis Harris "Ridin' High"--"I've Got you Under My Skin"--"It's D'Lovely" "Strike Up the Band" Gedrshwin
...foolish enough to try to place myself in a class, for example, with Ravel and Sibelius, whom I admire tremendously," says Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofe ("Ferde Grofe"), "but there is a real place for my kind of music. Some time, when I get older-I am 44 now-I may try a strict symphony form, but in the meantime I am going on trying to describe America in music." The America of Ferde Grofe (pronounced Ferdy GroFay), plump onetime arranger for Paul Whiteman and for the past five years a highly successful semi-classical musician on his own, is bounded...
Notable at the Whiteman-Philadelphia concerts was a tone poem by Ferde Grofe called Tabloid, scored for orchestra, electric siren, four typewriters, eight revolvers. According to City Editor George Clarke of the New York Mirror, who wrote the program notes, Tabloid had representations of comic-strip characters, a murder, sob sisters and sport writers at work, a whole newspaper going to press. Critics found Composer Grofe's latest work exciting but unmusical, liked best Mr. Whiteman doing good reliable Gershwin. Two nights later the Dell season officially opened, with the audience cheering Beethoven's Eroica as done...
...Poem Ravel *Overture to "Russlan and Ludville" Glinka Arabesque Hugh F. MacColl Chamounix Suite Florence Newell-Barbour Orchestrated by W. Leps Moonlight's Magic Spell Sunrise at Mont Blanc *Finale, Fifth Symphony Tchaikovsky Andante maestoso--Allegro vivace Dr. Wassili Leps, Guest Cond. *Selection, "The Fortune Teller" Herbert *Malaguena Lecuona-Grofe *Indian War Dance Skilton Selections Checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square