Grofe - Metropolis : A blue Fantasy for piano and orchestra, published score Q

[visitor]

  asked this privately to a buddy of mine but thought i might also take a stab at the lot of you. Super cool piece, doesn't really get looked at much given the wildy popular Gershwin Rhapsody, which is also a "blue" piece for piano and orchestra, and also from around the same time.

I have worldcat hits for a score but cannot figure out if it's a two piano reduction, or a piano + score parts.  
Anyone familiar with it or seen this rehearsed with two pianos? It's part of a subgenre i have a particular focus on in my collection and recall i was going to research this further a while back but got distracted so just now circling back around to it.

either way, glad i can hopefully help some folks discover the piece if it was unfamiliar to them, actually so much of what Grofe put out is pretty rad, was wildly popular in the past but lately there's so much 'noise' out there, he just gets sort of lost in it unless you specifically search him out. His orchestration skills were pretty great, and he was really good w piano

[indianajo]

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Well I thank you for pointing out a forgotten "gem" by the composer of Grand Canyon & Mississippi suites, and jazz band arranger of the Rhapsody in Blue.  
I'm a fan of old LP's from charity resale shops, and I've never seen this. I would have bought it if I had.  I can't listen, not without dropping $700 on a new to me used computer.  
A two piano score piece- I have two matching ones, but can't even interest anybody in playing original arrangement Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn or Rhapsody in Blue. or at least not without paying them $40 an hour.  Times have changed, we have cable TV now, and Hulu.  At least other people do.   I waste my time typing on the internet.  200 WPM typing, 1000 WPM reading, two more unpopular skills these days. 

[visitor]

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Well I thank you for pointing out a forgotten "gem" by the composer of Grand Canyon & Mississippi suites, and jazz band arranger of the Rhapsody in Blue.  
I'm a fan of old LP's from charity resale shops, and I've never seen this. I would have bought it if I had.  I can't listen, not without dropping $700 on a new to me used computer.  
A two piano score piece- I have two matching ones, but can't even interest anybody in playing original arrangement Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn or Rhapsody in Blue. or at least not without paying them $40 an hour.  Times have changed, we have cable TV now, and Hulu.  At least other people do.   I waste my time typing on the internet.  200 WPM typing, 1000 WPM reading, two more unpopular skills these days. 

thanks for your kind response . I agree, Grofe was a gem of a composer and left us with some great music. i actually have solo piano transcriptions of Grand Canyon, Mississippi, and Avatiation suites.
Hopefully you'll ge the tech piece sorted out, scan your classifieds, find a sweet deal on something used perhaps by a techie that is unloading something good but just because they are upgrading themselves.
yeah, good accompanists/collab partners are an investment for sure, worth it when you can swing it.
I may just bring that score in and take a looksy myself, will update w my thoughts when i get it.