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Article: Proms Peter Maxwell Davies: Symphony No 6 RAH, London / R3
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 8, 1996
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New work will frighten your audience, so one lollipop (at the
very least) must be in place to reward the patience of the punter
should anything offend the ears. At least, so the conventional
wisdom goes. Tuesday's Prom, planned, conducted and a large chunk
of it composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, served to show what a
tired old cliche that is. New music need inspire no fear and may
easily outpace any war-horse put there to offer comfort.
Maxwell Davies's Sixth Symphony received its London premiere,
spreading its wings, I suspect, in the wide open spaces of the
Royal Albert Hall after a world premiere in a modest Orkney cinema
just a few weeks ago. Commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic ...