Show Canyon Suite Completed as Chicago Pounded Out Staccato Obbligato to Be Given N N. Y Premiere Orchestra of 70 to Interpret Work by Moving Spirit of Jazz Music By CHARLES HONCE nONCE Associated Press Writer NEW YORK Feb 6 The 6 The rhythmic staccato beat of pile drivers drIves on ChIcago's Chicago's Chicago's Chi ChI- cagos cago's lake front provided a background background back back- background ground obbligato for or Ferde Grofe as ashe ashe asle he le put the finishing touches on five live pictures of the Grand canyon working work work- ng ing sans shirt in the heat f of a Chicago hotel room last summer Grofe Gi called the ghost writer of or jazz who became its prime minister has las returned to New York and wilt will direct the New York premiere of his most serious orchestra work at the Manhattan theater next Sunday night An orchestra of seventy will interpret interpret inter inter- pret the five sections of the canyon suite which includes a tremendous sunrise movement It virtually willbe will willbe willbe be an all Grofe night as most of ot the music on the program arranged for forthe forthe forthe the benefit of unemployed musicians either cither was composed arranged or orchestrated orchestrated or or- by the former of tonk ivories in Barbary coast dance halls Among these works will ill be Metropolis Metropolis Metropolis Me a huge orchestral picture of modern city life sometimes described as the first jazz fugue the popular Three Shades of Blue Mississippi Suite Free Air a garage fantasy in which a bicycle pump wheezes against a woodwind accompaniment and Knute Rockne a move four ment musical interpretation of the life of or a great football coach in which may be heard the shrill call of the referees referee's ref ref- crees cree's whistle the thunder of football scrimmage and the strains of Notre Dames Dame's Victory March My present ambition said the composer who with his wife ife and 19 old month-old son is r recovering from an automobile accident on the trip from Chicago to New York three weeks ago is lIis to interpret the American scene in modern American music to express musically the things I see sec and feel leel and hear of the ever changing aspect of American life This music Grofe feels should be neither too serious nor too light but somewhere in between Tone poems he lie likes to call the themes he works on Later he continued I III should like to do more serious work work such such as a full full length symphony One move move- ment mont of the canyon suite is scored for full symphony orchestra Grofe who would pass for a business business bustness busi bust ness man rather than a musician now is working on a new composition composition- Rip Van Winkle Formerly he did most of or his work at night but now he works in the mornings and often his inspiration comes in an early mornIng morning morn morn- Ing walk JOTS DOWN THEMES IES His mental musical themes are arc jotted jotted jot jot- ted down on pieces of heavy ruled paper and there are scores of these cards in his workroom in suburban Teaneck N. N J J. A bundle of thirty or more represents melodic and harmonic har bar monic developments for the sunrise movement of his canyon suite Descended from four tour generations of musicians the future composer was destined for a business career carcer but he heran ran away from home at 14 and after working as a an elevator operator truck ruck driver milkman and d foundry foundry- man he lie drifted into music by way of ot western Later he joined Paul Whiteman's band and became one of the first men to reduce jazz to note and score Coming to New York in Ip 1920 he won attention when he orchestrated George Gershwin's rhapsody in blue in ten days for the now historic Whiteman Whiteman Whiteman White- White man concert of American music in 1924 1024 S Since nce he has been putting a top top hat on jazz through succeeding orchestral works |