Happy to have studied composition and a class on the Beethoven quartets with John Bavicchi.

Recording date : 1978.

Starts out school of Roy Harris, and then evokes Dima Shostakovich very strongly in the opening movement. Very fine performance by an excellent conductor ('80's?).

Thanks for this. Perhaps it may encourage some contemporary orchestra to program this outstanding masterwork.

Alex North composed the music for the movie UNCHAINED from which came the all time hit song "Unchained Melody."

This wondrous work reminds me of Eric Coates.

I was at Baylor University from 58 to 62 and would listen to this station studying for my tests. Great memory

Shades of the Nutcracker! Charming and well-built.

This is a great Symphony. Written the same year that Stalin & Prokofiev died!

After listening to this beautiful music, I've come to the conclusion that D.G. Mason certainly has plenty of talent; it's a pity he has been neglected by music halls, radio, etc.

A very grand performance of GREAT music. It should be celebrated and played often.

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Does anyone have contact information for Jk Stevenson?

Bring it back. Rhapsody blue (United) is pure, and this score captures AA's roots. Orchestra stand off anyone?

Awesome. Beautiful. Inspiring.

Lifeless tedium, to my ears. And I very much DO appreciate Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Boulez.

I must add a correction. This performance is not conducted by Steinberg, but by Kirchner himself. Fleisher describes this incident in his autobiography. Steinberg tried valiantly, but apparently just had a blind spot for the piece - much like George Szell did for The Rite of Spring (a work that Steinberg led multiple times with success). So Kirchner was called in to salvage the performance. Fleisher went on to say that the only other conductor in his experience who could manage the Kirchner Concerto was Louis Lane, Szell's associate conductor in Cleveland.

This music speaks to my soul, it is majestic!

The title seems an ironic commentary on the music. I met Mr. Alexander in the 1970s, he was an interesting man. The mercurial restlessness and sheer kinetic activity of this score is very typical of his often expressionistic music.

Heard it in April of 1965 at Sanders Theater; it stirred amazing emotions

It would be great to hear this promising symphony in better audio quality. Could anyone upload/share the recording featuring the Assumption Grotto Orchestra under Eduard Perrone (Grotto Productions label)?

My Fathers family grew up in Pennsylvania. He took me to see his home town and schools he went to. I'm pleased and can relate to the Pennsylvania Symphony. As an adult i have also been to Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. So i have an affinity for this Symphony. I enjoy his harmonic language and orchestration of the melodies. So American. This really should he embraced.

He seems to have been partial to flute.

Frederick Balazs was a friend of mine toward the end of his life. We met serendipidously in a thrift shop in CA…He took an orchestral theme that I had written (Sea Spirit), to have his orchestra perform it in an outdoor concert in Greece. I have a photo of him playing his violin in my living room - Amazing man!

Really enjoyed listening to this, are there any recent recordings of this orchestral version??

This selection summarizes Peggy Glanville-Hicks's current situation. It is a superb piece weakly performed in a dreadful recording. As a previous comment stated, she deserves a series of new professional performances and recordings. Her orchestration is spare but lucid. As the Keith Jarrett recording of "Etruscan Concerto" demonstrated, a strong rhythmic performance can reveal an amazing new work.

Thank you!

This is a really great find. I now rank this as the finest 9th Symphony written by an American composer.

Beautiful - but would have mistaken it for Strauss for sure. Not the same Griffes of the 1910’s.

The NYC affiliate,WCBS,has just been swallowed whole by ESPN.

(Want to add...It feels good to reach through time to both "like" and "subscribe" to "Uncle Ralph!"❤️)

Ralph Shapey was my uncle...Married to (and divorced from) Vera Klement, (recently deceased modern artist of great note, see obituary N.Y.T.)...(both Ralph and Vera were awarded the Guggenheim), (both Vera's art and Ralph's music were heavily influenced by the holocaust) Vera was my father Leonard's sister...When I was a 10 year old boy, at my father's suggestion! and encouragement!, on the family gravel driveway in Georgetown CT, I foot-raced Uncle Ralph...We were both determined competitors!...He was wearing shorts and fell hard on the driveway...I saw gravel imbedded in his knee!...At 10 years old I didn't see any chance of Uncle Ralph surviving such a terrible injury!😳...I felt some responsibility for what I assumed would be his imminent demise!...In my youth I did not understand or like Ralph Shapey's music...As an adult, (now age 71) I both understand and love his music!...Thanks Uncle Ralph!❤️...I'm glad you survived!😊...Your nephew Mark

Piston's compositions make full use of the American sound idiom, i.e., widely spaced chord structures and progressions, rhythmic vitality, even references to folk/hymn melodies, etc. His symphonies are under-heard and rarely performed these days and hopefully we'll see a surge in interest in his wonderful music.

The movements are: I. Allegro II. Allegretto III. Vivo IV. Andantino V. Molto vivo

Can not believe so many remember! Thats ALL really hit the psyche and do not know why

Thanks to that from UNIT, I did indeed investigate the Viola Concerto, the 5th Symphony and the Requiem. I found most of the symphony boring, to be honest. The concerto was delightful - similar idiom to the Concerto For Light Orchestra - but that Requiem is immense, utterly superb. I recommend it without qualification.

I think it's great. Pure American Spirit ! Yes,it should be recorded again snd performed in Bands throught Our Nation !

PS I also recommend his magnificent Requiem which includes the complete Kaddish in Hebrew settled within the Roman Catholic format of the traditional requiem. Beautiful and haunting simultaneously.

As I suggested on another of your uploads - I invite listeners to compare this symphony with, for example, the Viola Concerto and the 5th Symphony. It's amazing these all come from the same composer.

Suggestion: listen to the Viola Concerto, the 4th Symphony and the 5th Symphony...then realise they are all by the same composer! Incredible and rather odd that he isn't more widely appreciated. True, some of this 1960s works can be tough and gnarly but he also wrote totally tonal works (cf Viola Concerto and Concerto For Light Orchestra). Anyway, thank you for making more of his work available for us to enjoy.

Amazing.

The theme that starts at 0:30 is a folksong that can be found on page 42 in Van Aalst's "Chinese Music (pub. 1884)

When I was in the Air Force, I worked a lot of shift work including many 11 pm to 7 am shifts and to help pass the time, I had a small portable radio that I used to listen to Music till Dawn. The station I heard it on was in New York City. Since I'm from Philly, which is close to NYC, it made me feel closer to my home and neighborhood in Philly. This music instantly brings all those memories back to me.

Although in one movement, the symphony is divided into 12 sections. They are: Andante, molto tranquillo - Allegro vivace - Piú allegro - Maestoso piú lento - Molto vivace, scherzando - Poco piú mosso - Allegro vivace - Adagio - Molto maestoso - Piú lento - Lento - Molto maestoso

Around 2010-2013, Nebraska violinist David Neely combed through the NEC vault and saw fit to record and release two of Redman's violin sonatas on Albany Records (a Chandos division, I think)

Jesus ain't coming!

Уильям Стерндейл Беннетт - ЯРЧАЙШИЙ представитель английского романтизма , подобно Шуману в Германии и Берлиозу во Франции .

Sounds like it could be a radio broadcast, like the NBC series of the BSO in rehearsal of a few years later.

I like these “oddballs” of classical music

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