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The discovery and dissemination of 20th-century classical music that embodies traditional aesthetic values of beauty, clarity, and emotional expression.

 

Now available in budget-priced paperback edition -- Voices in the Wilderness: Six American Neo-Romantic Composers (featuring comprehensive overviews of the lives and works of Ernest Bloch, Howard Hanson, Vittorio Giannini, Paul Creston, Samuel Barber, and Nicolas Flagello) By Walter Simmons More information.

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Ernest Bloch, Howard Hanson, Vittorio Giannini, Paul Creston, Samuel Barber, Nicolas Flagello