Word: grofe
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...George Gershwin, to whom jazz comes as readily as a new suit to a chamelon. It was of a murder in a Harlem speakeasy: love, passion, hate and a dark gal gone wrong. Its dramatic hinges creaked; it was sung and nearly drowned out. For both scores one Ferdie Grofe did the instrumentation and was highly praised. Of rotund Paul Whiteman's third sortie into the precincts of "respectable" music (this concert was in Carnegie Hall), people said: "He's done it again...