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Adagio (Holsinger)
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General Info
Year: 1998
Duration: c. 4:40
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: TRN Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $65.00 | Score Only (print) - $10.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II-III
Horn in F
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III
(percussion detail desired)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Composed in memory of a departed friend, this work is an intensely emotional synthesis of both joy and pain, the result being a beauty touched with sadness similar to the effect achieved by Albinoni's famous Adagio. Also similar with that work is its large arch form, which culminates with a broad full band statement of the theme set against a proud counterstatement in the horn section. On either side of the arch is a long, expressive crescendo/decrescendo built upon a rising bass line almost like a passacaglia. A beautiful tribute!
- Program Note by publisher
In memory of Byron E. Gray.
- Program Note from score
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: Rutgers Wind Ensemble - 2011
Media
State Ratings
- Georgia: IV
- North Carolina: IV
- South Carolina: III
Performances
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- Ocean Springs (Miss.) High School Wind Symphony (David Holsinger, conductor) - 4 March 2020 (86th Annual ABA National Convention)
- Ocean Springs (Miss.) High School Wind Symphony (Elva Kay Lance, conductor) – 22 February 2020 (CBDNA 2020 Southern Division Conference, Natchitoches, La.)
- Missouri University of Science and Technology (Rollo) Symphonic Band (David Cress, conductor) – 7 April 2019
- Jackson (Miss.) State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Lowell Hollinger, conductor) - 2016
- Indianapolis Symphonic Band (Steve Meurer, associate conductor) - 7 May 2015
Works for Winds by this Composer
- Abram’s Pursuit (1998)
- Adagio (2000)
- Adventures of Kid Cam, the Rocketman!, The (2014)
- American Faces (1996)
- Ancient Dances
- Armies of the Omnipresent Otserf, The
- Army Ants March and Boogie
- At the Strongholds of En Gedi (1996)
- Ballet Exaltare
- Ballet Sacra
- Battle Music
- A Call to Celebration (2012)
- Canticles!
- Case of the Mysterious Stranger, The
- Chase, The
- Childhood Hymn, A (1991)
- City Symphony
- Cluster Bluster Fluster March, The
- Connacht Rhapsody (2014)
- Consider the Uncommon Man
- Deborah's Triumph/Jael's Revenge (2016)
- Deerpath Dances
- Divertimented Dances
- The Easter Symphony (2001)
- Elegy on an American Folk Tune
- Elegy on an Evening Hymn (2013)
- Every Morning New
- Falcon Attack!
- Fanfare for Brass and Timpani
- Fanfare for Such a Time as This
- Fanfare for the Glorious NayCart
- Fantasy on a Gaelic Hymnsong (1999)
- Fantasy on Old Hundred (2018)
- Festiva Jubiloso
- Festival Music for a Silver Celebration
- Fort Canterbury March
- Gathering of the Ranks at Hebron, The (1988)
- Gears Pulleys Chains
- Gmyway’s Revenge!
- Graysondance
- Gypsydance (1994)
- Havendance (1982)
- Helm Toccata
- Hero Music (2005)
- Homage: Three Tapestries
- Hopak Raskolniki (1980)
- If You Must Doodle, Doodle Somewhere Else
- In Praise of Gentle Pioneers
- In the Spring At the Time When Kings Go Off to War (1991)
- Jolly Walk in Hibbertland, A
- Kaylen Dreaming (2006)
- Kansas City Dances
- Lake Canterbury Regatta
- Last Run
- Little Adventure Music, A
- Little Fantasy on an American Hymn
- Little Mystery Music, A (1996)
- Liturgical Dances (1982)
- Maelstrom, The
- March of the Combat Patrol, The
- March of the Grand High Poobah (2006)
- March on a Russian Hymnsong
- Mobbusters!
- Nilesdance
- On a Children's Sunday Song
- On a Hymnsong of Lowell Mason (1990)
- On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss (1988)
- On a Hymnsong of Robert Lowery
- On a Southern Hymnsong (1993)
- On an American Spiritual (1991)
- On Ancient Hymns and Festal Dances
- On the Cul-de-sac, Three O’clock, Friday Afternoon
- On the Grand Prairie Texas (1989)
- On the Overland Stage to El Paso
- One Day in a Small Town
- Otserf II : Revenge of the Warrior Prince
- Partita Allegro
- Peasant Village Dance, The
- Praises! (2001)
- Prairie Dances (1998)
- Prelude and Presto (2018)
- Prelude and Rondo (1976)
- Pride of Buxmont, The
- Providence Unfinished
- Quiet River (2011)
- Reagan of Illinois (2011)
- Reagan of Illinois Part II (2013)
- Riding With the Frontier Battalion
- Scaling the North Wall
- Scootin’ on Hardrock (1990)
- Scrappy Bumptoe’s Picture Cards and Ragtag Diary
- Sinfonia Voci (1993)
- Soliloquy
- Some Give All (2016)
- A Song of Moses
- Summer to Fall: A Love Song
- Symphonia Glorioso (2006)
- Symphonic Movement (Holsinger)
- Texas Promenade
- Til His Hand Grew Tired and Froze to the Sword
- To Live the Life Triumphant
- To Tame the Perilous Skies (1990)
- Von Grrrhart’s 613th Regimental March
- War Trilogy: 1971, The
- The White Rose (as arranger) (1917/)
- Zinphonia (2017)
Resources
- [davidrholsinger.com David Holsinger website] Accessed 6 February 2020
- Holsinger, D. (1998). Adagio [score]. TRN Music Publisher: Alto, N.M.
- Perusal score
