Karl Miller responds to various posters:

>>>Barber did not make the symphony list,
>>
>>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