Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra gave the first public performance of the work, in concert at the Studebaker Theatre in Chicago on November 22, 1931.
In writing "Grand Canyon Suite" I drew from notes I had made during my constant visits to the rim of the mighty work of nature.
"[3]The movements of the suite are: Grand Canyon is a 1958 short Walt Disney film in CinemaScope format directed by James Algar.
[5][6] The work has been recorded many times since, with performances by American orchestras conducted by Arturo Toscanini, Eugene Ormandy, Andre Kostelanetz, Leonard Bernstein, Morton Gould, Arthur Fiedler, Maurice Abravanel, Erich Kunzel, Lorin Maazel, Felix Slatkin, Antal Dorati and Howard Hanson.
Performances by non-American ensembles are much rarer, with a recording by the London Festival Orchestra under Stanley Black notable among them.