Phantom Phan wrote:To Tame the Perilous Skies is an awesome piece, one of Holsinger's best. However, I think I'd rank it as my third favorite, behind Liturgical Dances and the truly awesome and vastly under-performed The Armies of the Omnipresent Otserf.
Nah. The Cadets accomplished more with those pieces in 1993 than I thought possible. Ballet Sacra isn't a BAD piece... a little over-long and not as solidly composed as Perilous Skies, though. ItS,AtTWKGOTW simply isn't that great of a piece, in my opinion. One or two good melodies in another over-long piece. When you're talking about the concert band setting, Perilous Skies, Otserf, Liturgical Dances, Abram's Pursuit and Homage: Three Tapestries are ALL better Holsinger pieces, in my opinion.Wildabeast wrote:What? No Ballet Sacra or In the Spring, At the Time When Kings Go Off To War?