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 ...
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 Netherlands Metropole Orchestra, formed in 1945 by Dolf van der Linden, was inspired by and patterned after bandleader Paul Whiteman's seminal Concert Jazz Orchestra, for which Ferde Grofé served ...