Solace II. Beseiged by Joel Love | Composer published on 2018-12-08T05:18:31Z In “Besieged,” the music expresses a darker sentiment. Whyte’s poem states that “Conscious or unconscious, we are surrounded not only by the vicissitudes of a difficult world but even more by those of our own making.” The saxophone is often pitted against or is competing back-and-forth with the wind ensemble, striving and fighting to overcome. The piece ends just after the climax and segues into the third movement, echoing Whyte’s sentiment that we must sometimes go through difficult challenges to be aware and grateful of what we have. Genre Classical Comment by Kenneth D. Stewart yeah, sharp-eleven! 2021-02-04T05:03:11Z