Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quartet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Oboe - Level 3 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1430484
By The Beatles. By George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Richard Starkey. Arranged by Ray Thompson. 21st Century,Chamber,Pop. 9 pages. RayThompsonMusic #1011090. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.1430484).
Arranged wind quartet
Now and Then is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 2 November 2023. Dubbed the last Beatles song, it appeared on a double A-side single, paired with a new stereo remix of the band's first single, Love Me Do (1962), with the two serving as bookends to the band's history.
Now and Then is a psychedelic soft rock balladthat John Lennon wrote and recorded around 1977 as a solo home demo but left unfinished.
After Lennon's death in 1980, the song was considered as a potential third Beatles reunion single for their 19951996 retrospective project The Beatles Anthology, following Free as a Bird and Real Love, both based on two other Lennon demos of the same names.
Instead, it was shelved for nearly three decades, until it was completed by his surviving bandmates Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, using overdubs and guitar tracks by George Harrison (who died in 2001) from the abandoned 1995 sessions.
Arranged here for wind quartet, the oboe takes most of the melody
The video is my wind quintet arrangement.