Karl Miller responds to various posters:
>>>Barber did not make the symphony list,
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>>Which made me suddenly wonder: Why not? I really enjoy his first.
>
>I like both of them, but think the Second is a masterpiece.
Why do you think Barber withdrew it? I think it quite fine as well (in
Simpson's book on the symphony, Peter Jona Korn calls Barber's first a
masterpiece and dumps on the second, except for the second movement -
but Korn has other eccentric judgments as well).
Steve Schwartz