Steve Schwartz wrote:

>...the symphony - a genre many Europeans considered dead by that time
>(note that Bartok never wrote one)

Aside from the counterexamples others have provided, Robert Simpson and
Humphrey Searle (sp?) wrote series of symphonies of considerable substance.

Richard, who invites you to visit his music, outdoors and other pages at
http://www.magi.com/~richard/