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Roger Sessions

Roger Huntington Sessions (28 December 1896 – 16 March 1985) was an American composer, critic, and teacher of music.

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 Major works

• Symphony No. 1 (1927)
• The Black Maskers Orchestral Suite (1928)
• Piano Sonata No. 1 (1930)
• Violin Concerto (1935)
• String Quartet No. 1 (1936)
• Duo for Violin and Piano (1942)
• From my Diary (Pages from a Diary) (1940)
• Piano Sonata No. 2 (1946)
• Symphony No. 2 (1946)
• The Trial of Lucullus (1947), one-act opera
• String Quartet No. 2 (1951)
• Sonata for Solo Violin (1953)
• Idyll of Theocritus (1954)
• Piano Concerto (1956)
• Symphony No. 3 (1957)
• String Quintet (1957 or 1957–58)
• Symphony No. 4 (1958)
• Divertimento for Orchestra (1959)
• Montezuma (ca. 1940-1962, 1940s-1962, orchestration finished 1963, 1935–63, or 1941-64), opera in three acts (libretto by Giuseppe Antonio Borgese)
• Symphony No. 5 (1964)
• Piano Sonata No. 3 (1965)
• Symphony No. 6 (1966)
• Six Pieces for Violoncello (1966)
• Symphony No. 7 (1967)
• Symphony No. 8 (1968)
• Rhapsody for Orchestra (1970)
• Concerto for Violin, Violoncello, and Orchestra (1971)
• When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d (1971)
• Concertino for Chamber Orchestra (1972)
• Five Pieces for Piano (1975)
• Symphony No. 9 (October 1978)
• Concerto for Orchestra (1981)
• Duo for Violin and Violoncello (1981), incomplete

Some works received their first professional performance many years after completion. The Sixth Symphony (1966) was given its first complete performance on March 4, 1977 by the Juilliard Orchestra in New York City.

The Ninth Symphony (1978), commissioned by the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and Frederik Prausnitz, was premiered on January 17, 1980 by the same orchestra conducted by Christopher Keene.

 Writings

• Sessions, Roger. Harmonic Practice. New York: Harcourt, Brace. 1951. LCCN 51008476.
• Sessions, Roger. Reflections on the Music Life in the United States. New York: Merlin Press. 1956. LCCN 56012976.
• Sessions, Roger. The Musical Experience of Composer, Performer, Listener. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 1950, republished 1958.
• Sessions, Roger. Questions About Music. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1970, reprinted New York: Norton, 1971. ISBN 0-674-74350-4.
• Sessions, Roger. Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays, edited by Edward T. Cone. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. ISBN 0-691-09126-9 (cloth) ISBN 0-691-10074-8 (pbk)

 Sources

• Cone, Edward, ed. Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1979. ISBN 0-691-09126-9 and ISBN 0-691-10074-8.
• Davis, Peter G. "Montezuma's Revenge". New York Magazine (8 March 1982): 89–90.
• Imbrie, Andrew (1972). "The Symphonies of Roger Sessions". Tempo. Cambridge University Press. New Ser. (103): 24–32. ISSN 0040-2982. JSTOR 943951. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
• Laufer, Edward C. "Roger Sessions: Montezuma". Perspectives of New Music 4, No. 1 (Autumn–Winter, 1965): 95–108.
• Olmstead, Andrea. Conversations with Roger Sessions. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1987. ISBN 1-55553-010-9.
• Olmstead, Andrea. The Correspondence of Roger Sessions. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992. ISBN 1-55553-122-9.
• Olmstead, Andrea. Roger Sessions: A Biography. New York: Routledge, 2008. ISBN 978-0-415-97713-5 (hardback) ISBN 978-0-415-97714-2 (pbk.) ISBN 978-0-203-93147-9 (ebook)
• Olmstead, Andrea. "Sessions, Roger (Huntington)". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001.
• Prausnitz, Frederik. Roger Sessions: How a "Difficult" Composer Got That Way. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-19-510892-2

 المصدر

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 وصلات خارجية

• The Roger Sessions Society
• Art of the States: Roger Sessions
• biographer/Andrea Olmstead contains a discography
• The Seymour Shifrin Papers at Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Yale University Shifrin's papers include two MSS by Roger Sessions