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Wed 22 Aug, 2018:
Piston: Symphony No 6; Samuel Jones: Symphony No 3, Palo Duro Canyon; Stephen Albert: Symphony No 2

No symphonic tradition has coalesced into a recognisable signature so quickly or securely as that of America in the last century, as evidenced by the...

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Mon 03 Aug, 2015:
Fine: Complete Orchestral Works – Toccata concertante (1947); Notturno for strings and harp (1951); Serious Song, a Lament for string orchestra (1955); Blue Towers (1959); Diversions for orchestra (1960); Symphony (1962)

In his too-brief career, the American composer Irving Fine (1914-1962), a star pupil of Nadia Boulanger and a founding professor at Brandeis...

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Tue 21 Jul, 2015:
Hill: Symphony No 4 in E flat major, Op 47 (1940-41); Concertino No 1 for piano and orchestra, Op 36 (1931); Concertino No 2 for piano and orchestra, Op 44 (1938-39); Divertimento for piano and orchestra (1926)

Edward Burlingame Hill (1872-1960) studied at Harvard with John Knowles Paine and then in Paris with Charles-Marie Widor; he absorbed the Germanic...

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