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Kurt Browning Program Information


Program: Grand Canyon Suite
Artist: Ferde Grofe
Choreographer: Sandra Bezic

Performances: 1986-87 LP
1987 Canadians LP
1987 Worlds LP
1987-88 LP
1988 Canadians LP
1988 Olympics LP
1988 Worlds LP
2022 7 Wonders Skate Muskoka Club Show

Photos: none

CDs: Aaron Copland: Billy the Kid and Rodeo Suite/Ferde Grofe - Grand
Canyon Suite
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue/An American in Paris/Grofe: Grand
Canyon Suite
Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite/Gershwin: Porgy and Bess - A Symphonic Picture

Musical clip(s): Grand Canyon Suite: On the Trail

Lyrics: instrumental

Artist website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferde_Grof%C3%A9

Random facts: Kurt claims this song was written by Aaron Copland, but the only Grand
Canyon Suite is by Ferde Grofe. He may have been mistaken since the
suite of songs appears on a recording with Aaron Copland's music. This
is the program in which he famously landed the first quadruple jump in
competition, a quad toe loop at the 1988 Worlds on March 25, 1988 in
Budapest, Hungary. In 2022, Kurt revisited this number comedically as
part of the "7 Wonders" theme for the Skate Muskoka Club Show he
skated in. He used the same music and some of the same footwork, but
recast himself as an old man with a long grey beard, and integrated
some of the comedic moves from numbers like Rag-GIDON-Time.