The Symphony after 1945

[Ferretfancy]

I should bloody well hope not!

I've often wondered what Arnold would have made of Roberto's symphonies, given that, symphonic in nature though much of Schoenberg's music was, particularly after his adoption of the 12-tone method, he himself never actually wrote a symphony; the second chamber symphony, which he returned to several times after commencing work on it immediately after finishing the first, in 1906, was completed in the diatonic language.

Please don't blow a gasket ! Actually I do enjoy some of Arnie's work, including the chamber symphonies, although as Constant Lambert once said, it's hard to imagine him writing a comic opera!
Bws.
Ferret