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John Maxwell Geddes(1941-2017): R.I.P.

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« on: September 09, 2017, 07:07:51 pm »

To give a mere flavour of the British symphonists alive and active in 1970:

William Alwyn, Richard Arnell, Sir Malcolm Arnold, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, Sir Lennox Berkeley, Havergal Brian, Alan Bush, Arthur Butterworth, Arnold Cooke, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, David Ellis, Benjamin Frankel, Peter Racine Fricker, John Gardner, Ruthy Gipps, Richard Hall, Iain Hamilton, Alun Hoddinott, Daniel Jones, Kenneth Leighton, Malcolm Lipkin, George Lloyd, William Mathias, John McCabe, Anthony Milner, Robin Orr, Ian Parrott, Alan Rawsthorne, Edmund Rubbra, Humphrey Searle, Robert Simpson, Robert Still, Sir Michael Tippett, John Veale, Graham Whettam, Thomas Wilson, William Wordsworth.....etc etc etc.

Now...it is true that many of these composers had to wait until the advent of the cd for their symphonies to be commercially available BUT most of them had their symphonies performed on the BBC.

It is a list of considerable distinction!! And, of course, there were several others of the highest eminence who were not primarily symphonists (by my criterion): Bliss, Britten, Howells, Walton etc etc. but who wrote one or two symphonies and much music which was "symphonic".

I am tempted to draw further conclusions but I would upset some folk ;) ;) ;)
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