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 ...

On Sept. 20, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will celebrate history by making history—with a little help from a three-generation Johns Hopkins family. That night is the 200th anniversary of the first ...

“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 ...

Part one of Voices of a Nation features music by John Williams and Ferde Grofé. Experience Peoria Symphony Orchestra’s Voices of a Nation concert. Filmed in January 2026, the performance featured ...

I wanted to find a piece that captured the expansiveness of the days growing longer and the technicolor sunsets stretching out over the New York skyline, and what I found, bizarrely, was a piece from ...

Courtesy of TSO Nicholas Bardonnay’s visuals will be projected onto a 440-square-foot screen as the Tucson symphony plays. The Tucson Symphony Orchestra is celebrating the Grand Canyon’s 100th ...

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 ...