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christmas symphony of , which was very well received by audiences but derided by many of fry's rival critics, may be the first orchestral use of the saxophone, invented barely a decade before. his niagara symphony, written for louis jullien 's orchestra, uses eleven timpani to create the roar of the waters
, snare drums to reproduce the hiss of the spray, and a remarkable series of discordant , chromatic descending scales to reproduce the chaos of the falling waters as they crash onto the rocks. fry's other works, including leonora (new york debut in ) and notre-dame of paris ( , philadelphia), received...
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