Roger Sessions
A Biography
1st Edition
Published on 5. December 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-0-415-97714-2 (ISBN)
Description
Recognized as the primary American symphonist of the 20th century, Roger Sessions (1896-1985) is one of the leading representatives of high modernism. His stature among American composers rivals Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, and Elliott Carter. Sessions was awarded two Pulitzer prizes, election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, winning the Brandeis Creative Arts Award, the Gold Medal of the American Academy, and a MacDowell Medal, in addition to 14 honorary doctorates.
Roger Sessions: A Biography brings together considerable previously unpublished archival material, such as letters, lectures, interviews, and articles, to shed light on the life and music of this major American composer. Andrea Olmstead, a teaching colleague of Sessions at Juilliard and the leading scholar on his music, has written a complete biography charting five touchstone areas through Sessions's eighty-eight years: music, religion, politics, money, and sexuality.
Roger Sessions: A Biography brings together considerable previously unpublished archival material, such as letters, lectures, interviews, and articles, to shed light on the life and music of this major American composer. Andrea Olmstead, a teaching colleague of Sessions at Juilliard and the leading scholar on his music, has written a complete biography charting five touchstone areas through Sessions's eighty-eight years: music, religion, politics, money, and sexuality.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
50 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
50 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
869 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-97714-2 (9780415977142)
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Person
Currently the Handel & Haydn Society's Christopher Hogwood Research Fellow, Andrea Olmstead has published three books on Roger Sessions and Juilliard: A History. She has also written numerous articles, program and liner notes, and produced CDs. Olmstead taught Music History for thirty-two years and is married to composer Larry Bell.
Content
Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Family History Forty Acres and Phelps House--Archibald Sessions--417 Washington Avenue--109 Elm Street--Cloyne, Kingsley, and Kent--Harvard--Harvard Musical Review Chapter Two: Yale through The Cleveland Institute Yale--World War I--Barbara Foster--George Bartlett--Ernest Bloch--Cleveland Institute of Music--The Black Maskers--Friends--Summer of 1924--Stravinsky Chapter Three: The European Period Father figures--Florence --Symphony No. 1--Boulanger and Copland--The American Academy in Rome--Berlin Chapter Four: The Decade 1936-1946 Marriage and the Violin Concerto--David Diamond--Princeton--Symphony No. 2 Chapter Five: The Trial of Lucullus through Montezuma Berkeley--The Trial of Lucullus-- Schoenberg and Dallapiccola--Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4--Montezuma Chapter Six: The Last Two Decades