Indeed …

… In Praise of Chadwick.

If only every music director in America who was tempted to program the same Wagner overture for the 100th time would choose to play Rip van Winkle instead. In lieu of yet another Dvořák New World Symphony, what if we could hear Chadwick’s Symphony No. 3 just once? Chadwick’s Third is a work full of beautiful, sweeping melodies and moments of high drama. It has an incredibly moving, luminous slow movement (the symphony’s emotional heart), a scherzo marked by good humor and considerable contrapuntal invention, and a grand, joyous finale that gets the pulse racing. I’m pretty sure that if some musicologist had found this manuscript in the dusty archives of a Bohemian library, and proclaimed it to be a long-lost piece of Dvořák’s, the musical world would be hailing the find of the century.

Chadwick’s music is wonderful, and I think it sounds only like Chadwick.