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| | Walter Simmons |
 | | Composers who stayed closer to classic tonality and form not only wrote much that pleased (and still pleases) large concert audiences; they produced an imposing and valuable body of work "comparable in expressive power, individuality, and craftsmanship to the revered masters of the past". |
 | | Voices in the Wilderness deals with six composers born from 1880 to 1930 that for Simmons epitomize neoromanticism: Ernest Bloch, Howard Hanson, Vittorio Giannini, Paul Creston, Samuel Barber, and Nicolas Flagello. |
 | | These men wrote music "primarily concerned with the evocation of mood, the depiction of drama--either abstract or referential--and the expression of emotion--personal, subjective emotion, in particular". |
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