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