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  • n  a composer of symphonies

  • To Benny Goodman, 36, swing-man-symphonist, and Alice Hammond Duckworth, 40, great-great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt: their second child, a girl; in Manhattan.
  • As a symphonist, Dmitri Shostakovich was now up to Beethovenin quantity.
  • For his ill-chosen crew consists of Gawain MacSam (Marlon Wayans), a symphonist of obscenities; a silent, deadly, chain-smoking Vietnamese convenience-store operator (Tzi Ma); a .
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  • Steven Karidoyanes in Kingston Reporter
    Not only is he (Barber) one of the great American Romantic composers, but being a songwriter and symphonist, he just knows how to handle a melody,Karidoyanes said. "It's very American and attractive. We're the orchestra of America's...
  • Alexandre Desplat in CNN International
    ...French composer Alexandre Desplat, who interviewed Jarre for The Screening Room at the Berlin International Film Festival last month, told CNN Monday: "Maurice was an immense artist, an incredible symphonist, a magician of the melody and a...
  • David Wright in Telegraph.co.uk
    In an essay celebrating Arnell's 80th birthday in 1997, David Wright described the composer as the "greatest living British symphonist" - an audacious claim given that no commercial recordings existed of any of his symphonies.

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