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« Reply #15 on: March 18, 2013, 08:36:12 pm » |
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I have to disagree. Harris' 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th & 11th Symphonies are all superb works. As is "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight" and the Piano Quintet, 3rd String Quartet, Violin Sonata, "Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun" and others I cannot mention at first thought. Strong, sinewy the ultimate in American experiences. Maybe you have to be born here. But I see and feel our vast forests, rivers, mountains as clear as I see Ireland in Bax or Finland in Sibelius.
The 13th was a disaster written well after his prime. His family should have destroyed it. Up until th early 60s he was the equal of any American composer.
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