Hi All I am looking for a place to purchase or borrow the original 10 piece arrangement of the west side story suite by eric crees, Anybody have any ideas ? Bones
mmmm, you got me thinking now, I`ve heard 2 recordings of it, pretty sure they were 10 piece. I`ll have to do some digging Bones
I'm pretty sure you're spot on. I've played it 3 or 4 times as a 16-piece (which was only available to hire through the Concord/Maecenas hire department) as this was the way Crees did the original for the enlarged Philip Jones group. It's also the way the LSO Brass play/record it. Never seen it for 10-piece
Pretty sure the arrangement is for the same instrumentation as Elgar Howarth's arrangement of Pictures at an Exhibition. Therefore, 6 trumpets, 4 horns, 3 trombones, 1 euphonium, 2 tubas and as much percussion as there is space for!
16 piece - only available for hire at extortionate rate. Purchase - no chance Borrow - you'll be lucky (if anyone does have a set of this, it is probably illegally copied)