Roy Harris's Third Symphony
2007 was the centennial year for my native state, Oklahoma, and before
it fades away, I wanted to mention a recent post by Robert Gable.
Gable writes, that "I personally, subjectively, non-rationally prefer
Harris' Symphony No. 3 to anything by Adams or Reich. Of course,
numbers 2 thru 24 are all Adams and Reich (with #25 Lara Downes
playing Harris' American Ballads)."
Gable talks about the work as if it's a guilty pleasure. I like it,
too (there's a cheap recording easily available.)
Harris was an Oklahoma native, although I don't remember hearing
anything about him when I lived there, even when I took a classical
music appreciation class at the University of Oklahoma.
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