Ferde Grofe who for twelve years has worked for Jazz behind the scenes made one of his rare appearances last week out front. Ever since Jazz swept down the Barbary Coast, Ferde Grofe has been Paul Whiteman's Man Friday, anonymously scoring tunes, embroidering them until even some of the sleaziest have taken on symphonic richness. Last week in Chicago a great crowd gave him longaccumulated credit. Paul Whiteman played Ferde Grofe's Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon and the audience shouted approval of a smoothly syncopated sunrise and sunset, a thunderous, climactic...
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