Wind Ensemble

Arranged for Saxophone Quintet (SAATB) with optional drum kit.

Ferde Grofé is perhaps most well-known for his brilliant orchestration of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, but he also wrote a number of suites through the 1930s-1950s. His Hollywood Suite from 1938 doesn’t actually feature any music from films of the time, but was his attempt to depict what life was like working behind the scenes in the Hollywood film industry at the time, with movements that suggest janitors sweeping up, and carpenters and electricians busy working on the sets. The fourth movement ‘Production Number’, which this arrangement comes from, evokes memories of swinging 1930s Hollywood musicals – think Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire!

Originally for Concert Band, 'With Each Sunset (Comes The Promise of a New Day)' (2005) was composed in memory of Jack Hensley from Cobb County, Georgia, USA, who unfortunately lost his life while working in Iraq in 2004. This beautiful piece of music should remain calm throughout, with the bigger dynamic and emotional moments given their full amount of time without hurrying cutoffs. The end of the piece should fade away naturally to almost nothing.