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...Evening, May 28 Entrance of the Boyards Halvorsen *Overture to "Oberon" Weber "The Fair Day," from "An Irish Symphony" Harty *Two Hungarian Dances Brahms No. 5 in G minor No. 6 in D major *"On the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss "On the Trail," from the suite, "Grand Canyon" Grofe *Overture to "Tannhauser" Wagner *"Pictures at an exhibition" Moussorgsky-Ravel (Hans Wiener Dancers, with Orch.) Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard...
...Trail" from the "Grand Canyon Suite" Grofe...
...producers do not wish to be too soon familiarized. On the current special list are also Deems Taylor's Through the Looking Glass, his operas Peter Ibbetson and The King's Henchman; George Gershwin's An American in Paris, Rhapsody in Blue, Second Rhapsody; Ferde Grofe's Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon and Metropolis; seven songs sung by Sir Harry Lauder. who will sing no song previously broadcast...
Music for Grofe then came to mean playing every instrument in the band. He toured the California mining camps with one Professor Jerome who gave the miners dancing lessons. He played once in a brothel. He played in the first Paul Whiteman orchestra when jazz, unknown in the East, was starting its swift, insidious advance on the Barbary Coast. A good musician, a born improviser, he was soon mak-ing all the Whiteman arrangements. Whiteman commissioned George Gershwin to write him some music for a serious concert. Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue was a piano solo. Grofe scored...
...Grofe needs outside inspiration to build on. He played his own compositions last week (Metropolis, Mississippi Suite, Kmite Rockne, Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon) and just as for years he made sleazy dance tunes sound like something, so his own music was effective because of the way he varied his rhythms and instruments. Conducting, he made his big climax bigger by crouching down on his square legs, pointing a stubby forefinger. Grofe is planning an orchestra of his own now, but he is also fulfilling the destiny laid out for him by his parents. In Teaneck...