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Sessions, Roger (Huntington)
composer, piano, theorist, teacher
| born: 28 Dec 1896 |
Brooklyn, New York / state, USA |
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| 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
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.
Madrid, A.L.
Young Mexican composers : Samuel Zyman : a Mexican composer in New York
Soundboard 22:31-4 N3 1996
Karolyi, Otto
Modern American music from Charles Ives to the minimalists
London: Cygnus Arts, 1996, 143 p.
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
Classical music Sessions : Symphonies Nos. 6, 7, and 9 (American Composers Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies, conductor) (Argo)
Stereo Review 61:95 Aug 1996
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
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.
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)
Peysen, Joan
Babbitt, Milton
Tureck, Rosalyn
The music of my time
Foreword by Milton Babbitt and Rosalyn Tureck
London: Kahn & Averill, 1995, 474 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 Harbison : Symphony No. 2; Oboe Concerto
Sessions : Symphony No. 2 (Bennett; San Francisco Symphony, Blomstedt) (London)
Stereo Review 59:103-4 Sep 1994
Classical music reviews Sessions : Piano Concerto
Thorne : Piano Concerto No. 3 (Taub; Oppens; Westchester Philharmonic, Dunkel) (New World)
Stereo Review 59:161 Dec 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)
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
Atwood, J.
Contemporary etudes and solos for the violoncello
American String Teacher 43:31-4 N3 1993
biog il mus port
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
Kerner, Leighton
Music Copland's Dracula
Village Voice: 38:106 Nov 16 1993
Sparrer, Walter-Wolfgang
Heister, Hanns-Werner
Komponisten der Gegenwart
Edition Text+Kritik
Herausgegeben von Hanns-Werner Heister und Walter-Wolfgang Sparrer
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
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)
Olmstead, Andrea
The correspondence between Arnold Schonberg and Roger Sessions
Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute 13:47-62 N1 1990
Steinberg, Michael P.
Roger & me
Symphony: 41:13-14 N3 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
Greer, Taylor A.
Music theory : anatomy of a discipline
Theory and Practice 13:147-9 1988
Moor, Paul
San Francisco Symphony : Sessions Violin Concerto
Musical America 108:46-7 N3 1988
Turok, Paul
Ovation record review
Oja, Carol J.
Cos Cob Press and the American composer
facs il
Benjamin, T.
On teaching composition
Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 1:57-76 N1 1987
bibliog
Note: includes Free Advice to a Young Composer
Burge, David
About pianists
An appreciation : Roger Sessions, 1896-1985.
American Music 5:113-14 N1 1987
Note: Kent Quarterly, Winter 1986. 35p
Index to music necrology : supplement to the 1985 necrology
Notes (Music Library Association), 1987, p. 768
Carter, E.
Roger Sessions : a commemorative tribute
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.
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]
Berger, A.
Roger Sessions : a reminiscence
Perspectives of New Music 23:117-18 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]
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
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
Lewin, David
Studying with Roger
Perspectives of New Music 23:152-4 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.
Carter, E.
Roger Sessions admired
Perspectives of New Music 23:120-22 N2 1985
Olmstead, Andrea
The Plum'd Serpent : Antonio Borgese and Roger Sessions's Montezuma
Tempo N152:13-22 Mar 1985
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Babbitt, Milton
I remember Roger
Perspectives of New Music 23:112-16 N2 1985
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
Musikhandel 36:192 N4 1985
Symphony No. 9. (Bryn Mawr, Merion (Presser), 1984. $65.00)
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
Billboard 97:70 Apr 6 1985
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
Mens En Melodie 40:414 Sep 1985
port.
Cyr, G.C.
Roger Sessions at Berkeley
A personal reminiscence
Perspectives of New Music 23:131-8 N2 1985
Olmstead, Andrea
Roger Sessions and his Music.
Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1985, 218 p.
musical examples
In memoriam Roger Sessions
Perspectives of New Music 23:160-61 N2 1985
illustr.
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]
Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik N4:61 Apr 1985
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
Hudebni Rozhledy 38:288 N6 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]
Diapason: (US) 76:4 Jul 1985
Olmstead, Andrea
Roger Sessions and his music.
Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press 1985. XVII, 218 S.
Mit Ill.
(Series: Studies in Musicology; 81)
Diamond, David
Roger Sessions remembered
Perspectives of New Music 23:139-40 N2 1985
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
Wilson, Lyle G.
A dictionary of pianists
London: Robert Hale, 1985
Number of People : 2,597
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
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
Prausnitz, Frederik
Roger Sessions remembered
Perspectives of New Music 23:155-8 N2 1985
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
Orchester, Das 33:513 May 1985
[Roger Huntington Sessions - obituary]
Opera (England) 36:883 Aug 1985
Olmstead, Andrea
The Black Maskers : Russian expressionism and American music
Sonneck Society For American Music Bulletin: 10:47-8 Summer 1984
Note: abstract
Wheeler, William Scott
Harmonie motion in the music of Roger Sessions
Brandeis. 1984. dissertation.
Porter, Andrew
Musical events
New Yorker: 60:174 Nov 12 1984
Note: American Composers Orchestra
Siohan, Robert
La musique etrangere au XXe siecle
Paris: Presse Universitaire de France, 1984, 128 p.
Sheeler, William Scott
Movement : Harmonic Motion in the Music of Roger Sessions.
Brandeis. 1984. Ph.D. 93 p.
- Dissertation Abstracts International: 45-1SA
Hruby, Frank
Cleveland Orchestra : Sessions salute
High Fidelity/musical America Edition 34:ma32-3 Jul 1984
port
Daniel, Oliver
Roger Sessions
The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer's music combines complexity with rugged expressive power
Ovation 4:12-15+ Mar 1984
ports
Moor, Paul
Homage to Roger Sessions
High Fidelity/musical America Edition 34:ma31+ Mar 1984
port
Starr, Lawrence
[Review]
Perspectives of New Music. 23 (1984/85), No. 2, S. 216-219.
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.
Butterworth, Neil
A dictionary of American composers
Number of People : 525
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
Salzman, Eric
Modern music for orchestra
Stereo Review 48:82 Jul 1983
Note: recordings
Press, Jaques Cattell
Who's who in American music : classical
First edition
Edited by Jaques Cattell Press
New York: R. R. Bowker, 1983
Number of People : 6,738
Porter, Andrew
Musical events American symphonists
New Yorker: 58:94+ Jan 31 1983
Note: European premiere
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