intensive ending of symphonic work

[schweitzeralan]

It as been a while since I posted on the forum.  I recall vaguely there was a discsussion and many  opinions of acknowledged symphonic works which revealed varieties of closures or intensive endings.  There were many responses if my memory serves me.  I'm posting this because I finished listening to a work  by the American composer Easley blackwood, whom I did include in a posting way back in 2010.  I hadn't heard his 1st Symphony since that time long ago.  I was caught up if not embroiled in his particular '50's embracing rhythms and melting tonic centers.  What impressed me most was the last movement and its unique ending.  It's not unlike a musical recreation of a death encounter.  Bleak and final.  Somehow sensuous as well as foreboding.  Reminded me somewhat of Bax's 3rd or one of the symphonies of VW.

[schweitzeralan]

There is a posting of a similar theme develped in  the forum "Classical Music For Beginners."  I thought I had come accross the postings, but it was so long ago. I never recalled it's being included in  a different section.  Interesting postings.  I guess, however, that very few, if anyone, ever listens to works by Easley Blackwood.