Talk:Symphony No. 2 (Hanson)

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Anyone who complains that there are no major articles left to create in Wikipedia, here is an amazing example to the contrary. James470 (talk) 02:13, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

"Romantic"?
Who came up with that name? Was that from Hanson? Kortoso (talk) 18:48, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Nuts, here we are: "Hanson wrote his Second Symphony, his most famous work, in 1930. He titled it 'Romantic' as a self-conscious reaction to the formalism he saw predominating so much concert music in the era of Stravinsky's neo-classicism and the Second Viennese School's serialism.  At the time, Hanson wrote (presciently) 'romanticism will find in this country rich soil for a new, young, and vigorous growth.'" -John Shinners

From Britannica
Hanson offered that his aim for the piece was “to create a work young in spirit, Romantic in temperament, and simple and direct in expression.” He later added that he saw it as “a protest against the growing Schoenbergism of the time.” Kortoso (talk) 21:46, 25 September 2017 (UTC)