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Pennsylvania-born Peter Mennin is something of a phenomenon among U.S. composers: at 25, he has already had three symphonies performed, and he is not a bit complacent about it. With a grin, he dismisses his first symphony, composed at 17, as "too damn long." He says, "Let's just forget about the Second"-even though it won the Gershwin and Beams prizes...
...Mennin's Third ("the so-called popular one," he calls it) has been played in Pittsburgh, Cleveland and in Sweden, and got first-string Manhattan critics out two years ago. The New York Times noted "a conspicuous advance...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Beethoven's Second Symphony, William Schuman's Symphony for Strings, Peter Mennin's Folk Overture; Robert Shaw conducting...