Your Top Five Favorite American Symphonies

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springrite

#100
September 20, 2017, 04:56:58 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on September 20, 2017, 06:18:51 AM
What's Del Tredici's Alice Symphony like, Paul?

The piece I like better is actually Final Alice, which is one of the pieces Alice Symphony is based on. Think of an episodic long piece with a girlish voice speaking and occasional screaming through much of it.
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

foxandpeng

#102
February 06, 2024, 10:45:34 AM
Antheil 4
Hovhaness 1
Piston 2
Diamond 2
Hanson 2

My top 5 today.

Yesterday?

Antheil 5
Ives 3
Piston 6
Mennin 7
Rouse 2

The other day...

Maslanka 9
Hovhaness 50
Barber 2
Harris 3
Krouse 5

I think I'm probably cheating here...
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people ... then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness"

Tolstoy

Karl Henning

#103
February 06, 2024, 10:57:05 AM
Quote from: foxandpeng on February 06, 2024, 10:45:34 AMAntheil 4
Hovhaness 1
Piston 2
Diamond 2
Hanson 2

My top 5 today.

Yesterday?

Antheil 5
Ives 3
Piston 6
Mennin 7
Rouse 2

The other day...

Maslanka 9
Hovhaness 50
Barber 2
Harris 3
Krouse 5

I think I'm probably cheating here...
Nah, I don't think many of us could really set five in stone.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

DavidW

#104
February 06, 2024, 11:01:20 AM
Ives (all), Carter (both), Copland's Organ Symphony

Karl Henning

#105
February 06, 2024, 12:29:39 PM
Quote from: Karl Henning on February 06, 2024, 10:57:05 AMNah, I don't think many of us could really set five in stone.
Also, there are more American symphonies coming all the time. Heck, someday, who knows ... a Henning symphony might (might) make such a list.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

vandermolen

#106
February 16, 2024, 11:43:36 AM
Lets have another go!

Cowell: Symphony No.5
Copland: Symphony for Organ and Orchestra
Creston: Symphony No.2
Harris: Symphony No.3 (Bernstein/Sony)
Diamond: Symphony No.1
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

kyjo

#107
March 10, 2024, 03:49:22 PM
Barber 1
Hanson 2 Romantic
S. Jones 3 Palo Duro Canyon
Piston 2
W. Schuman 3

Nos. 6-10:
Bernstein 1 Jeremiah
Copland 3
Creston 3 Three Mysteries
Diamond 3
R. Thompson 2
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Christo

#108
March 11, 2024, 11:09:52 AM
Quote from: Christo on April 13, 2015, 09:54:54 PMINPO:
Barber, Symphony No. 2
Diamond, Symphony No. 3
Copland, Symphony No. 3
Still, Symphony No. 1 'Afro-American' (too playful to neglect)
And one from Schuman, Mennin, Piston, Ives, Hanson, Harris, or ...  ???

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