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Haggin, B. H. | April 2, 1938 issue

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Music composer Roy Harris is everything a significant American composer should be. He was born in the U.S., he loves the U.S., he writes music to express the qualities and spirit of the U.S. as these appear to him, and in the present instance he wrote "Symphony for Voices" to texts by lyricist Walt Whitman. Harris's only deficiency is that he cannot write the music a significant American composer would write. As a result there is always a wide discrepancy between what he sets out to do and what he actually achieves a work reads like a great deal in the program notes, but sounds like very little when it is heard.

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HARRIS, Roy, 1898-1979; SYMPHONY for Voices (Music); MUSICIANS; COMPOSERS; MUSIC; SYMPHONY
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