| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Bate was a man who readily absorbed what was new, and if we sense the occasional flavor of Hindemith and the Shostakovich First Piano Concerto (complete with obbligato trumpet in the finale) in the fast music, and the lyricism of Poulenc in the slow movement, we also quickly recognize the ebullient voice of Bate himself in two scores that just precede his celebrated Third Symphony.
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