Bridgewater Breeze
Adam Gorb (transcribed by composer)
This work is also known as Suite for Winds.
General Info
Year: 1996 / 2000
Duration: c. 10:00
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Maecenas Music
Cost: Parts - £70.95 | Score (Purchase) - £18.95
Movements
1. Foxtrot - 1:50
2. Samba - 1:30
3. Merry Go Round - 2:05
4. Lament - 2:35
5. Hoedown- 2:00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon
Contrabassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
Bari Saxophone
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II, including:
- Cymbals (Crash and Suspended)
- Orchestra Bells
- Side Drum
- Tambourine
- Tom tom (low)
- Triangle
- Tubular Bell (in C)
- Woodblock
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Bridgewater Breeze was commissioned by Timothy Reynish and the Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester on November 27, 1996. The work is a transcription of Gorb's Suite for Winds. The five movements of the piece can be performed together or separately at the discretion of the conductor.
- Program Notes from score
The Suite for Winds was written primarily to be a flexible work for any number of musicians. It was commissioned by Timothy Reynish, and originally intended to be playable by young musicians, and to make the challenges faced by music directors (varying skill levels, fluctuating numbers, etc.) easier to deal with. The suite is designed to allow a large number of players, or one on a part, or even to be played with a different instrumentation than originally written.
Each movement features a different type of groove or dance -- the first is a traditional foxtrot, the second a zesty samba, the fourth a stately lament, and the fifth a barn dance style hoe-down.
- Program Note from State University of New York, Fredonia, Wind Symphony concert program, 23 February 2017
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: Rutgers Wind Ensemble
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Northwestern State University of Louisiana (Natchitoches) Fredericks Concert Band (Jeff Mathews, conductor) - 24 February 2022
- Puget Sound Youth Wind Ensemble (Tacoma, Wash.) (John Falskow, conductor) – 25 March 2018
- State University of New York, Fredonia, Wind Symphony (Paula Holcomb, conductor) – 23 February 2017
- W.F. West High School Wind Ensemble (Adam Campagna, conductor) - 07 March 2017
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- A Little Tango Music (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2020)
All Wind Works
- Adrenaline City (2006)
- African Samba (2006)
- Ascent (1996/2004)
- Awayday (1996)
- Awayday (arr. Wintringham) (1999/2015)
- Battle Symphony (1999)
- Bells Across the Atlantic (2013)
- Bermuda Triangle (1994)
- Bohemian Revelry (2013)
- Bohemian Revelry: For Chamber Ensemble (2013/2021)
- Bohemian Revelry (tr. Holland) (2013/2017)
- Bridgewater Breeze (1996)
- Candlelight Procession (2001)
- Concerto for Violin, Viola and Wind Ensemble (2022)
- Dances from Crete (2003)
- Downtown Diversions (2000)
- Eine Kleine Walzermusik (2009)
- Eine Kleine Yiddishe Ragmusik (2003)
- Elements (1998)
- Euphonium Concerto 1997
- Farewell (2008)
- French Dances Revisited (2004)
- A Little Salsa Music
- A Little Tango Music (2007)
- Metropolis (1992)
- Midnight in Buenos Aires (2007)
- Out of the Darkness (2023)
- Parade of the Wooden Warriors (1999)
- Pikes Peak (2017)
- Repercussions (2011)
- Scenes from an English Landscape
- Scenes from Bruegel (1994)
- Suite for Winds (1993)
- Summer Dances (2012)
- Sunrise and Safari (2006)
- Symphony No. 1 in C (2000)
- Three Way Suite
- Towards Nirvana (2002)
- Tranquility (2009)
- Viderunt Omnes (2014)
- Yiddish Dances (1997)
- Yiddish Dances (Chamber) (1997/2020)
Resources
- Adam Gorb website
- Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "Adam Gorb." Accessed 24 February 2017
Gorbm A. (2000). Bridgewater Breeze (1996) [score]. Maecenas Music: Kenley, UK.
- Gorb, Adam. Dances from Crete Winds Magazine.
- Kinder, Keith. "Bridgewater Breeze. MBM Times, Issue 6 (2012), 56.
- Perusal score