At the end, when the audience cheered, it was the culmination of a two-year project—the rediscovery of a long-forgotten piece of music by a once-renowned American composer. And I'd like to think that ...

If Robinson Crusoe’s Man Friday had left him, gone adventuring on his own, it would have upset 18th Century literature no more than jazzdom was upset last week when Ferde Grofe stepped forth in ...

“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 ...

Music that imitates the sounds of nature has been a part of human experience since at least 12,000 years ago, when hunters carved bone flutes sounding like birds’ songs to draw them to their killing ...

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Ron Arden has been trying to program “Grand Canyon Suite” by Ferde Grofe for several years. Finally, he’s got the score and parts in hand, and he’ll direct the piece with the FullScore Chamber ...

If the price of gas is making you rethink your summer travel plans, here's a way to tour the country without ever having to fill the tank. Just sit back and relax, as five American composers take you ...

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has been showing a lot of love for the bicentennial of the Battle of Baltimore and the poem Francis Scott Key was inspired to write after witnessing the bombardment of ...

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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.