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Any suggestions of interesting but not too difficult 5-10 minute pieces for strings and wind only? I have an amateur orchestra of strings (no basses: 2-2-2-3-0) plus a decent amount of wind (4 flutes, 4 clarinets, 2 alto sax, 1 tenor sax) and can add a bass clarinet to that later. If the piece is fo...

Nothing since 2010, and no comments from jgjgjg themselves - doubt I'll get a reply there.

I've tried to contact Gory / jgjgjg via the "info@gory.jazztel.es" address given on his/her editions, but it appears to no longer work. If anyone has contact details for them, could they please forward the following? (I could also possibly do it by scanning, but I'd also quite like to give...

Thanks for all the suggestions - much appreciated. Ordering some music now (suite from Lord of the Rings for expandable string orchestra, it lets you add up to double wind and brass, presumably doubling the string parts), but will keep all those in mind once we know what forces we have available.

PD would be preferred, but we have some music budget. Is there anywhere I could find a list of Grainger's pieces with orchestration summaries (e.g. 2-1-1-1 2-0-0-0 strings, etc.)?

Hi all, First post here - I looked back through the last year's topics, but couldn't see anything relevant to this. I run an orchestra which has an unpredictable membership each year depending on who turns up. For example, last year we ended up with 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, an alto sax, 5 vio...