Ferde Grofe

Ferde Grofé turned American landscape and popular-orchestral color into concert music. A composer and arranger from the USA, he is best known for Grand Canyon Suite and for orchestrating Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. His work connects jazz-age arranging, pictorial symphonic writing, and the broad public sound of early 20th-century American music.

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  Nature Sounds

  8 orchestral pieces depicting thunderstorms

  Of all the meteorological phenomena, thunderstorms are perhaps one of the most imposing forces of nature, so it is not...