Monday Fun Fact Oct 26

Grand Canyon Cloudburst

image from Conde Nast Traveler

If you have ever travelled to or have seen pictures of the Grand Canyon, you know how breathtakingly beautiful it is!  It is so enchanting that musical composer Ferde Grofé wrote the Grand Canyon Suite. One of the pieces in this musical suite is called "Cloudburst".

I said that music can create images in your mind - well "Cloudburst" does an amazing job of creating the sounds of a frightening thunderstorm!  You can hear the wind, thunder and lightning!  Take a listen to it here.  The scary wind starts to blow at the 2:57 mark:

                           https://youtu.be/iCaX-t_P5q0

image from Follow the Cougar

I would listen to this song many times when I was a child, and I would wrap myself in a blanket when the thunder and lightning began! It was so good and scary!!

 Ferde Grofé, wrote The Grand Canyon Suite between 1929 and 1931.  A suite in music is an ordered set of musical pieces.  Ferde Grofé initially titled his music Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon, and when you listen to them, you can picture those as well!  You can hear and see the sun come up in "Sunrise" and the donkeys braying in "On the Trail".  

image from Grand Canyon Deals

Enjoy!