John Kinsella (born 1932)

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I'm sure that you are right Fergus. I enjoy the 3rd and 5th Symphony (I have the Chandos boxed set of the symphonies and the Irish Rhapsodies) and the 4th Irish Rhapsody as well as the Piano Concerto No.2.  I played his 6th Symphony the other day 'In Memory of GF Watts' and found it to be a terrible bore. His antisemitism ('Of course you Jews can't write tunes', said to his student Arthur Benjamin, who greatly admired Stanford) I find very unappealing. He was clearly a great teacher.

I would be a bit more forthcoming with regard to his antisemitism tbh but I would probably be expelled from here for using non-genteel language and one was in no way trying to defend such appalling attitudes but merely trying to compare and put some context on the concept the "greatness" or otherwise of two composers from two completely different eras. [Not that you were trying to suggest otherwise, Jeffrey. You are too much of a gentleman to do otherwise.]