Karl Miller: >Some years ago, one of our ethnomusicology students said..."of course >the symphony is dead. (of course Bernstein said that many years ago) >It has no relevance to our society." While I would like to think it >should be relevant. I wonder if there will be enough who do find it >relevant to provide the money to keep it going. For me...there are times >when I think it is only through the recording that we will preserve this >"irrelevant" art form. We should make a list of recent symphonies which demonstrate that the reports of the symphony's demise are exaggerated, A few that come to mind going back to 1990 arbitrarily: Holmboe: last few Norgard Third Symphony Ruders Second Symphony Schnittke Eighth Symphony Bernard Chasan