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Sessions, Roger (Huntington)
composer, piano, theorist, teacher
| born: 28 Dec 1896 |
Brooklyn, New York / state, USA |
Source: 1 |
| died: 16 Mar 1985 |
Princeton, New Jersey / state, USA |
Source: 1 |
| date of Variety obit: 20 Mar 1985 |
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Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
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Indice Onomastico
p. 510-520 In:
Inchausteguie, Aristides
Vida musical en Santo Domingo (1940-1965)
Santo Domingo, D.N.: 1998, 529 p.
Number of People : 1,493
Madrid, A.L.
Young Mexican composers : Samuel Zyman : a Mexican composer in New York
Soundboard 22:31-4 N3 1996
Mellers, Wilfred Howard
New world oldies; Roger Sessions : Symphonies Nos. 6, 7 & 9 (American Composers Orchestra/Dennis Russell Davies) (Argo)
Musical Times, 137:20 Apr 1996
The United States and Canada in the Twentieth Century
p. 500 In:
Gordon, Stewart
A History of Keyboard Literature.
Music for the Piano and its Forerunners
New York: Schirmer Books, 1996, 566 p.
Karolyi, Otto
Modern American music from Charles Ives to the minimalists
London: Cygnus Arts, 1996, 143 p.
Classical music Sessions : Symphonies Nos. 6, 7, and 9 (American Composers Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies, conductor) (Argo)
Stereo Review 61:95 Aug 1996
Peysen, Joan
Babbitt, Milton
Tureck, Rosalyn
The music of my time
Foreword by Milton Babbitt and Rosalyn Tureck
London: Kahn & Averill, 1995, 474 p.
Brumbeloe, Joe
Recording reviews Roger Sessions : Quintet for 2 Violins, 2 Violas and Cello; Canons (to the Memory of Igor Stravinsky); Six Pieces for Violoncello; and String Quartet in E Minor (The Group for Contemporary Music) (Koch International Classics)
American Music 13:128-9 N1 1995
Talbot, J.
Review / CDs Roger Sessions : Duo for Violin and Cello; Six Pieces for Cello; Duo for Violin and Piano; Sonata for Violin (Curtis Macomber (violin), Joel Krosnick (cello), Barry David Salwen (piano)) (Koch)
Wallace, H.
Reviews / CDs Roger Sessions : Duo for Violin and Cello; Six Pieces for Cello; Duo for Violin and Piano; Sonato for Violin (Curtis Macomber (violin), Joel Krosnick (cello), Barry David Salwen (piano)) (Koch)
Musical Times, 136:107 Feb 1995
Wright, D.
Reviews / CDs Roger Sessions : Quintet; Canons to the Memory of Stravinsky; Six Pieces for Violoncello; String Quartet in E Minor (The Group of Contemporary Music) (Koch)
Musical Times, 136:45 Jan 1995
Devenney, David P.
Source readings in American choral music
College Music Society, 1995, 258 p.
Struble, John Warthen
The history of American classical music : MacDowell through Minimalism
By John Warthen Struble
Facts on File, 1995, 444 p.
Classical music reviews Sessions : Piano Concerto
Thorne : Piano Concerto No. 3 (Taub; Oppens; Westchester Philharmonic, Dunkel) (New World)
Stereo Review 59:161 Dec 1994
Classical music reviews Harbison : Symphony No. 2; Oboe Concerto
Sessions : Symphony No. 2 (Bennett; San Francisco Symphony, Blomstedt) (London)
Stereo Review 59:103-4 Sep 1994
Denford, A.
Review / CDs Roger Sessions : String Quintet; Canons; Six Pieces for Violoncello; String Quartet in E Minor (Group for Contemporary Music) (Koch International Classics)
Atwood, J.
Contemporary etudes and solos for the violoncello
American String Teacher 43:31-4 N3 1993
biog il mus port
Kerner, Leighton
Music Copland's Dracula
Village Voice: 38:106 Nov 16 1993
Lochhead, Judy
Temporal processes of form : Sessions's Third Piano Sonata
Contemporary Music Review 7:163-83 N2 1993
abs bibliog chart diag mus notes
Listening post Sessions : Complete Works for Solo Piano (Barry David Salwen, piano) (Koch International CD)
Classical Music Magazine 16:31 N2 1993
Villamil, Victoria Etnier
Hampson, Thomas
A singer's guide to the American art song 1870-1980
Foreword by Thomas Hampson
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1993, 452 p.
Lochhead, Judy
Temporal processes of form : Sessions's Third Piano Sonata
Contemporary Music Review 7:163-83 N2 1993
abs bibliog chart diag mus notes
Borroff, Edith
Clark, J. Bunker
American opera : a checklist
By Edith Borroff
Edited by J. Bunker Clark
Detroit: Harmonie Park Press, 1992, 334 p.
Number of People : 2,319
Sparrer, Walter-Wolfgang
Heister, Hanns-Werner
Komponisten der Gegenwart
Edition Text+Kritik
Herausgegeben von Hanns-Werner Heister und Walter-Wolfgang Sparrer
Morgan, Robert P.
Twentieth-century music
A history of musical style in modern Europe and America
New York: W.W. Norton, 1991, 554 p.
(Series: The Norton Introduction To Music History)
Steinberg, Michael P.
Roger & me
Symphony: 41:13-14 N3 1990
Olmstead, Andrea
The correspondence between Arnold Schonberg and Roger Sessions
Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute 13:47-62 N1 1990
Olmstead, Andrea
The Copland-Sessions letters
port
Nott, Michael David
Roger Sessions's Fugal Studies with Ernest Bloch
A Glimpse into the Workshop
American Music, 07-3, 1989, p. 245-259
Nott, M.
Roger Sessions's fugal studies with Ernest Bloch
A glimpse into the workshop
American Music 7:245-59 N3 1989
illustr.
Sonti, Piero
Repertorio di musica Sinfonica : gli autori, le composizioni dal seicento a oggi
Moor, Paul
San Francisco Symphony : Sessions Violin Concerto
Musical America 108:46-7 N3 1988
Greer, Taylor A.
Music theory : anatomy of a discipline
Theory and Practice 13:147-9 1988
Oja, Carol J.
Cos Cob Press and the American composer
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Turok, Paul
Ovation record review
Benjamin, T.
On teaching composition
Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 1:57-76 N1 1987
bibliog
Note: includes Free Advice to a Young Composer
An appreciation : Roger Sessions, 1896-1985.
American Music 5:113-14 N1 1987
Note: Kent Quarterly, Winter 1986. 35p
Burge, David
About pianists
Index to music necrology : supplement to the 1985 necrology
Notes (Music Library Association), 1987, p. 768
Index to music necrology : 1985 necrology
Notes (Music Library Association), 1986, p. 757
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
Central Opera Service Bulletin 26:36 N4 1986
Anderson, Martin J.
[Review]
Tempo, No. 159 (1986), S. 36-37.
Carter, Elliott
Roger Sessions : a commemorative tribute.
Tempo, No. 156 (1986), S. 4-6.
Carter, E.
Roger Sessions : a commemorative tribute
Sadie, Stanley
Hitchcock, H. Wiley
The new Grove dictionary of American music
edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie
New York, N.Y. : Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1986. 4 v.
Number of People : 3,993
Imbrie, Andrew
Remembering Roger
Perspectives of New Music 23:148-51 N2 1985
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
Billboard 97:70 Apr 6 1985
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
Finney, Ross Lee
In memoriam Roger Sessions 1869-1985
Perspectives of New Music 23:142-3 N2 1985
port
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
Mens En Melodie 40:414 Sep 1985
port.
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
Cyr, G.C.
Roger Sessions at Berkeley
A personal reminiscence
Perspectives of New Music 23:131-8 N2 1985
Gorelick, Brian Lee
Movement and Shape in the Choral Music of Roger Sessions.
Illinois (Urbana). 1985. D.M.A. 296 p.
- Dissertation Abstracts International: 46-1772A
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
Variety 318:150 Mar 20 1985
Meckna, Michael
Copland, Sessions, and Modern Music
The rise of the composer-critic in America
American Music 3:198-204 N2 1985
Kerner, Leighton
Roger Sessions, 1896-1985
Village Voice: 30:82 Apr 2 1985
port
Lewin, David
Studying with Roger
Perspectives of New Music 23:152-4 N2 1985
Porter, Andrew
Musical events
New Yorker: 61:95 Apr 8 1985
Obituary
Musical Times, 126:364 Jun 1985
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
American Organist: 19:42 Jun 1985
Carter, E.
Roger Sessions admired
Perspectives of New Music 23:120-22 N2 1985
Prausnitz, Frederik
Roger Sessions remembered
Perspectives of New Music 23:155-8 N2 1985
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik N4:61 Apr 1985
In memoriam Roger Sessions 1869-1985
Perspectives of New Music 23:110-65 N2 1985
Note: tributes by colleagues and friends
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
Opera (England) 36:883 Aug 1985
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
Orchester, Das 33:513 May 1985
In memoriam Roger Sessions
Perspectives of New Music 23:160-61 N2 1985
illustr.
Gorelick, Brian Lee
Movement and shapc in the choral music of Roger Sessions
Illinois (Urbana). 1985. dissertation.
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana 19:582 N3 1985
Diamond, David
Roger Sessions remembered
Perspectives of New Music 23:139-40 N2 1985
Babbitt, Milton
I remember Roger
Perspectives of New Music 23:112-16 N2 1985
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
Hudebni Rozhledy 38:288 N6 1985
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
Musikhandel 36:192 N4 1985
Symphony No. 9. (Bryn Mawr, Merion (Presser), 1984. $65.00)
Olmstead, Andrea
Roger Sessions and his music.
Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press 1985. XVII, 218 S.
Mit Ill.
(Series: Studies in Musicology; 81)
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
Diapason: (US) 76:4 Jul 1985
Olmstead, Andrea
The Plum'd Serpent : Antonio Borgese and Roger Sessions's Montezuma
Tempo N152:13-22 Mar 1985
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Berger, A.
Roger Sessions : a reminiscence
Perspectives of New Music 23:117-18 N2 1985
Olmstead, Andrea
The plum'd serpent : Antonio Borgese and Roger Sessions's "Montezuma"
Tempo, No. 152 (1985), S. 13-22.
Mit 2 Fig.
Olmstead, Andrea
Roger Sessions and his Music.
Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1985, 218 p.
musical examples
Wilson, Lyle G.
A dictionary of pianists
London: Robert Hale, 1985
Number of People : 2,597
Hruby, Frank
Cleveland Orchestra : Sessions salute
High Fidelity/musical America Edition 34:ma32-3 Jul 1984
port
Moor, Paul
Homage to Roger Sessions
High Fidelity/musical America Edition 34:ma31+ Mar 1984
port
Babbitt, Milton
In memoriam Roger Sessions 1896-1985.
[Verf.:] Milton Babbitt [u.a.]
Perspectives of New Music. 23 (1984/85), No. 2, S. 110-165.
Mit Abb. u. Noten.
Siohan, Robert
La musique etrangere au XXe siecle
Paris: Presse Universitaire de France, 1984, 128 p.
Wheeler, William Scott
Harmonie motion in the music of Roger Sessions
Brandeis. 1984. dissertation.
Daniel, Oliver
Roger Sessions
The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer's music combines complexity with rugged expressive power
Ovation 4:12-15+ Mar 1984
ports
Olmstead, Andrea
The Black Maskers : Russian expressionism and American music
Sonneck Society For American Music Bulletin: 10:47-8 Summer 1984
Note: abstract
Sheeler, William Scott
Movement : Harmonic Motion in the Music of Roger Sessions.
Brandeis. 1984. Ph.D. 93 p.
- Dissertation Abstracts International: 45-1SA
Porter, Andrew
Musical events
New Yorker: 60:174 Nov 12 1984
Note: American Composers Orchestra
Wolpe, Stefan
On new (and not-so-new) music in America (lecture delivered to the International Summer Course for New Music, Darmstadt, July 1956)
Journal of Music Theory 28:23 N1 1984
includes German text
Wheeler, William Scott
Harmonic Motion in the Music of Roger Sessions.
Brandeis. 1984. Ph.D. 93 p.
- Dissertation Abstracts International: 45-1SA
Starr, Lawrence
[Review]
Perspectives of New Music. 23 (1984/85), No. 2, S. 216-219.
Butterworth, Neil
A dictionary of American composers
Number of People : 525
Porter, Andrew
Musical events American symphonists
New Yorker: 58:94 Jan 31 1983
biog
Meckna, Michael
Copland, Sessions, and Modern Music
The rise of the composer-critic in America
Sonneck Society For American Music Bulletin: 9:19 Spring 1983
Note: abstract
Porter, Andrew
Musical events American symphonists
New Yorker: 58:94+ Jan 31 1983
Note: European premiere
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