Symphony No.7

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Symphony No.7 was the latest in the celebrated partnership between composer Ross Harris and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. In the New Zealand Herald William Dart wrote, “This is a restless, unpredictable score. The pastoral mood of its opening bars is soon subverted by intriguing smudges of dissonance and teasing whiplashes of percussion. Striking contrasts come in spikey dances and jaunty, sometimes sinister marches; after an uproarious climactic tutti, the symphony’s 24-minute life fades into wisps of solo strings.”