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