American composer Ferde Grofé wrote his “Grand Canyon Suite” in 1931 as a five-movement jazz-infused tone poem to be played by a small orchestra of about 20 players. But when you’re talking about a ...

The Phoenix Symphony closed its season with a program that celebrated the breadth of the Americas. The Phoenix Symphony closed its 2024–2025 broadcast season with a program that celebrated the breadth ...

Along with Presidents, celebrate one of America’s greatest landmarks and take a musical trip to the Grand Canyon and see its changing colors at sunrise and sunset, ride a burro down a trail, and take ...

Ferde Grofe thought about traveling newlyweds when he wrote his Niagara Falls Suite. We hear the Bournemouth Symphony play The Honeymooners, by Grofe, under the baton of Willam Stromberg.

Grand Canyon is a 1958 American short documentary film directed by James Algar and produced by Walt Disney Productions. It is a pictorial interpretation of Ferde Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite. Grand ...

“I am not 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 ...