Roger Sessions
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
©1979
Language
English
Description
Over the past fifty years Roger Sessions has developed, in articles, lectures, and addresses, various themes that reflect the stages of his own musical and intellectual growth. These themes form the basis of the present collection of essays. Many of the essays deal with specific problems that musicians, especially composers, have faced during the past five decades: problems related to new musical styles and techniques, to the position of composers...
Author
Publisher
Northeastern University Press
Pub. Date
©1987
Language
English
Description
In the course of his long career, Roger Sessions came to assume a preëminent position among modern American composers. Until his death in 1985 at the age of 88, Sessions produced a prodigiously varied oeuvre--from large choral and orchestral pieces to chamber music and solo woks--that continues to attract devoted admirers. Unlike many of his contemporaries, however, Sessions remained an elusive figure, a deeply private man who drew sharp distinctions...
17) Symphony no. 6
Author
Publisher
Merion music : sole representative, T. Presser Co
Pub. Date
c1975
Language
English
18) Chorale (no. 1)
Author
Series
Contemporary organ volume no. 2
Publisher
H. W. Gray
Pub. Date
[c1941]
Language
English