Ferde Grofé's Tabloid Suite

Ferde Grofé's Tabloid Suite

Ferde Grofé's Tabloid Suite

ASIN: B0001Z4PIC

Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. Four Pictures of a Modern Newspaper: Run of the News
2. Four Pictures of a Modern Newspaper: Sob Sister
3. Four Pictures of a Modern Newspaper: Comic Strip
4. Four Pictures of a Modern Newspaper: Going to Press
5. Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon: Sunrise
6. Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon: Painted Desert
7. Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon: On the Trail
8. Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon: Sunset
9. Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon: Cloudburst

Disc: 2
1. Concerto in F: Allegro
2. Concerto in F: Andante Con Moto
3. Concerto in F: Allegro Agitato

Editorial Reviews
All Music Guide
"A wealth of rare material is included here...will be of considerable interest to Raymond Scott's increasing following."

Product Description
This 2-disc set features new recordings in settings previously used by Paul Whiteman. Included are the complete "Grand Canyon Suite", "Tabloid Suite" and Gershwin's "Concerto in F". This is the first recording of the complete jazz version of the "Grand Canyon Suite"!

Ferde Grofé's Tabloid Suite,The Metropole Orchestra,Basta Records,Big Band,Jazz,Pop,Swing,Traditional Pop
Ferde Grofé's Tabloid Suite
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Sensational!
 Ferde Grofé's Tabloid Suite

Manufacturer: Basta Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001Z4PIC
Release Date: 2004-05-04

Tracks:

  1. Four Pictures of a Modern Newspaper: Run of the News
  2. Four Pictures of a Modern Newspaper: Sob Sister
  3. Four Pictures of a Modern Newspaper: Comic Strip
  4. Four Pictures of a Modern Newspaper: Going to Press
  5. Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon: Sunrise
  6. Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon: Painted Desert
  7. Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon: On the Trail
  8. Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon: Sunset
  9. Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon: Cloudburst

Tracks:

  1. Concerto in F: Allegro
  2. Concerto in F: Andante Con Moto
  3. Concerto in F: Allegro Agitato

Album Description

This 2-disc set features new recordings in settings previously used by Paul Whiteman. Included are the complete "Grand Canyon Suite", "Tabloid Suite" and Gershwin's "Concerto in F". This is the first recording of the complete jazz version of the "Grand Canyon Suite"!

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Sensational!.......2004-09-16

I'm happy to report that this two-CD Ferde Grofe set is a winner from front to cover. Grofe's 1932 "Tabloid Suite," composed fifteen years after Erik Satie's music for the ballet "Parade," employs similar sound effects (including a typewriter and siren), similar machine-like rhythms and riffs, and similar contrasts of dynamics and tempi. Even the whole-tone sections (a Grofe staple) sound Satie-esque here. No waste of ink, this wonderful piece delights and entertains in both a gaudy yellow-journalistic style and a more thoughtful op-ed fashion. A dizzying, rondo-like "Run of the News" is followed by "Sob Sister," a lush and Paul-Whiteman-esque tear-jerker with shades (so to speak) of "Sunset." This is the closest we may ever come to hearing the vintage Whiteman outfit in stereo. The suite presses on with the charming and thematically-diverse "Comic Strip"--the best kind of cartoon music, very sardonic and Les Six--and concludes with the sound-effects festival, "Going to Press." Reprints--er, reprises--of earlier themes occur in this, the most "Parade"-like movement in the group. If all of this weren't enough, the Metropole Orchestra also delivers a suitably grand version of Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite" as scored for Paul Whiteman in 1932. A miracle of orchestration, this more intimate version of the suite might be better, in some ways, than the one we're used to hearing--no details of chord or melody are eroded by overactive engineering, and no portion of the brass is lost in the gorge. Here, we have the movement as Grofe intended it to burst. The second CD features Grofe's fascinating 1928 orchestration of Gershwin's "Concerto in F," lovingly presented, and with the same refreshing attention to detail. Gershwin's concerto, while an American classic, is in some ways an odd follow-up to the two masterfully-organized Grofe suites, as Gershwin had none of Grofe's sense of form. Compared to Ferde's compositional precision, George's art was virtually one of filling musical space with sounds. Then again, few people ever filled that space as memorably as he did. Order isn't everything, I suppose. (But, by all means, order this fabulous CD!)
Ferde Grofé's Tabloid Suite
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    		Ferde Grofé's Tabloid Suite

    Manufacturer: Basta
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    All Works by GershwinAll Works by Gershwin | Gershwin, George | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
    Grofé, FerdeGrofé, Ferde | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music
    SuitesSuites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music
    SymphoniesSymphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
    PianoPiano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Jazz | Styles | Music
    Swing GeneralSwing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music
    Classic Big BandClassic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music
    Contemporary Big BandContemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music
    Traditional Vocal PopTraditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music
    Traditional PopTraditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music
    ASIN: B0002NAIG6
    Release Date: 2004-05-04

    Tracks:

    1. Four Pictures of a Modern Newspaper: Run of the News
    2. Four Pictures of a Modern Newspaper: Sob Sister
    3. Four Pictures of a Modern Newspaper: Comic Strip
    4. Four Pictures of a Modern Newspaper: Going to Press
    5. Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon: Sunrise
    6. Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon: Painted Desert
    7. Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon: On the Trail
    8. Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon: Sunset
    9. Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon: Cloudburst

    Tracks:

    1. Concerto in F: Allegro
    2. Concerto in F: Andante Con Moto
    3. Concerto in F: Allegro Agitato

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