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David Diamond Symphony No.6 from Naxos

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« Reply #15 on: May 22, 2018, 04:56:22 pm »

So, I am put in the position of potentially having to defend the "modernism" of Diamond's 6th symphony against the criticisms of my good friend Jeffrey(vandermolen)

Yes, the 6th is a spikier, more aggressive, dissonant, angrier symphony than some of Diamond's others but so what? Vaughan Williams's 6th is a lot more violent than the Pastoral or the 5th. Composers are allowed to compose music which demonstrates other styles, moods, responses. The Diamond 6th does not make for particularly comfortable listening but the same can be said and is said about most if not all of William Schuman's later symphonies. The Diamond is not a symphony I shall return to often but it is clearly what the composer intended (as RVW said of his own fourth).
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