Suite for Winds
General Info
Year: 1995
Duration: c. 10:00
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Maecenas Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) – £50.50 | Score Only (print) - £14.95
Movements
1. Foxtrot
2. Samba
3. Merry Go Round
4. Russian Lament
5. Hoe Down
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Scored for flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons and saxophones only, but offering plenty of scope for whatever additions (or subtractions!) directors find appropriate to their circumstances (any wind instrument in the same key with a suitable range). Invaluable material when faced with fluctuating numbers, changing line-ups and techniques ranging from ABRSM grades 1 to 4. Not only a useful rehearsal item though -- the five highly attractive, contrasting, short movements make an extremely enjoyable concert piece.
- Program Note from publisher
Suite for Winds is scored for a woodwind ensemble of flutes, oboes, bassoons, clarinets, bass clarinets, and saxophones. It received its premiere performance at Royal Albert Hall in London, with Charles Henwood conducting the Berkshire Music Wind Ensemble.
The five movements are like lessons in styles of music, ranging from light to serious to raucous. Leading off is the Foxtrot, the smooth flow of the dance punctuated by some fancy footwork. A Latin rhythm is invoked by the Brazilian Samba. Memories of childhood return with the up and down flow of the horses around the Merry Go Round. The mood becomes more somber with the Russian Lament, before the suite closes with a Hoe Down.
- Program Note from Henderson State University Wind Ensemble concert program, 7 October 2018
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- East Carolina University (Greenville, N.C.) Symphonic Band (Joe Busuito, conductor) - 21 March 2021
- Henderson State University (Arkadelphia, Ark.) Wind Ensemble (Shaun R. Popp, conductor) – 7 October 2018
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 Accessed 11 October 2018
- Gorb, A. (1993). Suite for Winds [score]. Maecenas Music: Kenley, Surrey, England.
- Perusal score