Thursday morning Intermezzo host Chris Wolf played a full recording of Ferde Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite. On December 17, 1958 Walt Disney Productions released a short documentary film featuring the suite as a background for gorgeous aerial shots of the Grand Canyon.
Directed by James Algar, Grand Canyon was shown as a supplement during Sleeping Beauty's initial run. It won an Academy Award at the 31st 
Frederick Stark conducts the Symphonie Orchester Graunke for the film score. In 1990, the orchestra changed its name to the Munich Symphony Orchestra.
The orchestra has recorded music for more than 500 films, including George Bruns' adaptation of Tchaikovsky's ballet score for Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty, El Cid by Miklos Rozsa, Jerry Goldsmith's score for The Wind and the Lion, Christopher Young's music for Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Victor Young's score for The Brave One and Howard Shore's score for The Silence of the Lambs.
According to the opening credits, Grand Canyon is "a pictorial interpretation of Ferde Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite", much as the animated segments in Fantasia are pictorial representations of music, and the film is strongly related to its soundtrack.
The film has no live actors, no dialogue, and no narration, only musical accompaniment.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon_(1958_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Symphony_Orchestra
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