This composer's first symphony synthesizes the four movements of classical symphonies into one movement.
This composer's first symphony synthesizes the four movements of classical symphonies into one movement. One of his pieces begins with a soprano singing, "It has become that time of evening when people sit on their porches." This composer destroyed the score to his Second Symphony after reworking its second movement as Night Flight. The life partner of (*) Gian-Carlo Menotti, this composer wrote a one-movement instrumental work that opens with the violins softly holding a sustained B-flat. This composer used a prose poem by James Agee as the text of his Knoxville: Summer of 1915, and wrote a piece played at the funerals of Franklin 
This composer's first symphony synthesizes the four movements of classical symphonies into one movement.
Samuel Barber