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...more serious vein, W.W. Austin 2G, accompanist for the Glee Club, has programs ranging from Ferde Grofe, famous for his "Grand Canyon Suite," to Bach and Debussy. Five swing bands are available, including the "Crimsonians," under the direction of John B. Harlow '41, and the "Gold Coast Orchestra," led by Stanley Brown...
...Crimson Concert Hall" concerto in F by Gershwin; Grand Canyon Suite by Grofe...
Cyrano von Grofe was kept so busy writing out other people's music that he seldom got a chance to write any of his own. But from time to time he did turn out an orchestral piece in conservative jazz style. Most were more notable for their expert workmanship than for sizzling licks or hip-wrenching tunes...
Last week, Grofe's latest composition, a ballet called Cafe Society, was given its first hearing in Chicago's skyscraper Opera House. Choreography by Philadelphia's Catherine Littlefield, capers by Chicago's newly imported Littlefield Ballet, helped make it agreeable to ballet fans and tired businessmen alike. A good-natured, showy satire on night-club life, its scene recalled Manhattan's El Morocco; its main characters were thickly disguised as Heavyweight Max Baer, "Chain-store Nymph" Barbara Hutton, Columnist Lucius Beebe...
...this, his second ballet (Hollywood Ballet, produced in the Hollywood Bowl in 1935, was his first), Grofe had written catchy, adept, U. S.-style music, had added a persuasive point in his lifelong argument for "symphonic" jazz...