Editing Roy Harris (section)

== The Symphonies ==

Harris composed at least 18 symphonies, though not all of them are numbered and not all are for orchestra. A full list is as follows:

* Symphony – Our Heritage (1925 rev. 1926, abandoned), sometimes referred to as Symphony No. 1 [for orchestra] – only an Andante survives
* Symphony – American Portrait (1928–29) [for orchestra]
* Symphony 1933 (1933), sometimes referred to as Symphony No. 1 [for orchestra]
* Symphony No. 2 (1934) [for orchestra]
* Symphony for Voices (1935) after Walt Whitman [for unaccompanied SATB chorus]
* [[Symphony No. 3 (Harris)|Symphony No. 3]] (1937–38, rev. 1939) [for orchestra]
* Folksong Symphony (Symphony No. 4) (1939 rev. 1942) [for chorus and orchestra]
* Symphony No. 5 (1940–42 rev. 1945) [for orchestra] — dedicated "to the heroic and freedom-loving people of our great ally, the Union of Soviet Republics"
* Symphony No. 6 'Gettysburg Address' after Lincoln (1943–44) [for orchestra]
* Symphony for Band 'West Point' (1952) [for US military band]
* Symphony No. 7 (1951–52, rev. 1955) [for orchestra]
* Symphony No. 8 'San Francisco' (1961–62) [for orchestra with concertante piano]
* Symphony No. 9 (1962) for Philadelphia [for orchestra]
* Symphony No. 10 'Abraham Lincoln' (1965) [for speaker, chorus, brass, 2 pianos and percussion]; revised version for speaker, chorus, piano and orchestra (1967; long thought missing, some string and woodwind parts found mis-filed in the library of the Youngstown Symphony, which premiered the orchestral version.  Those parts donated to the Library of Congress.){{Citation needed|date=March 2013}}
* Symphony No. 11 (1967) for New York PO 125th [for orchestra]
* Symphony No. 12 'Père Marquette' (1967–69) [for tenor solo, speaker and orchestra]
* Bicentennial Symphony 1776 (1969–74), numbered by Harris as Symphony No. 14 out of superstition over the number 13 but posthumously re-numbered as No. 13 by Dan Stehman with the permission of the composer's widow [for six-part chorus and orchestra with solo voices and speakers]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Robertson |first=Malcolm D. |date=October 2000 |title=Roy Harris's Symphonies (Part II) |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040298200008032 |journal=Tempo |issue=214 |pages=20–27 |doi=10.1017/s0040298200008032 |s2cid=143077601 |issn=0040-2982|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

In addition there is a missing (and perhaps not completed) Symphony for High School Orchestra (1937) and the following unfinished or fragmentary works:

* American Symphony (1938) [for jazz band]
* Choral Symphony  (1936) [for chorus and orchestra]
* Walt Whitman Symphony (1955–58) [baritone solo, chorus and orchestra]

In 2006 [[Naxos Records]] launched a project to record the 13 numbered symphonies,<ref>Anon. n.d.</ref> mainly with conductor [[Marin Alsop]]. As of June 2018, they had released recordings of the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth Symphonies. The recordings of the seventh and ninth symphonies are by the [[National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine]] under [[Theodore Kuchar]]. Symphony 1933 was recorded in 1987 by the [[Louisville Orchestra]] under the baton of [[Jorge Mester]] for their First Edition Recordings series. The same orchestra has also recorded and released his Fifth Symphony 22 years prior. The [[Albany Symphony Orchestra]], under the direction of [[David Alan Miller]], released their recording of Harris's Symphony No. 2 (paired with [[Morton Gould]]'s Third Symphony) in 2002. Harris's Eighth and Ninth Symphonies can be found on Albany Symphony Orchestra's 1999 recording titled, "The Great American Ninth".