Applying Bernard's Whameter (Worth Hearing Again meter) to the symphonies of active and living composers I'm familiar with, my short list would include: George Tsontakis's Four Symphonic Quartets Erki-Sven Tuur's 2nd symphony Jose Serebrier's 2nd (Partita) Yehven/Evgeni Stankovytch's 2nd (Heroic) symphony John Kinsella's 4th (The Four Provinces), and his 9th, for strings, just recently premiered. Bert Bailey