Roger Huntington Sessions (December 28, 1896 – March 16, 1985) was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music. He had initially started his career...
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The Lockdown Sessions is a studio album by British musician Roger Waters, released on 9 December 2022 by Legacy Recordings. It compiles home recordings...
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Butterfly Lukas Foss, Quintets for Orchestra 1981: no prize awarded 1982: Roger Sessions, Concerto for Orchestra 1983: Ellen Zwilich, Three Movements for Orchestra...
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McNally Itzhak Perlman Ruggiero Ricci Marian Seldes Marcella Sembrich Roger Sessions Teddy Wilson During the first decade of the 20th century, there were...
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Elmer Bernstein (category Pupils of Roger Sessions)
1966 Torn Curtain. Having studied composition under Aaron Copland, Roger Sessions, and Stefan Wolpe, Bernstein also performed as a concert pianist between...
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B-flat major (D. 485) by Franz Schubert, 1816 Symphony No. 5 (Sessions) by Roger Sessions, 1960–64 Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich) in D minor (Op. 47) by...
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Maslanka Vincent Persichetti Einojuhani Rautavaara Alfred Schnittke Roger Sessions Ralph Vaughan Williams Boris Tishchenko In 2012, composer Philip Glass...
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Symphony No. 9 by Roger Sessions is a symphony in three movements, completed in 1978. A performance lasts about 28 minutes. Sessions began his Ninth Symphony...
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Sonata by Béla Bartók, in the third movement. Piano Sonata no. 2 by Roger Sessions, at measure 178. Piano Sonata No. 3 by Carlos Chávez, in six bars of...
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John Adams (composer) (category Pupils of Roger Sessions)
music. He attended Harvard University, studying with Leon Kirchner, Roger Sessions, and David Del Tredici, among others. His earliest work was aligned...
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Oscar Hammerstein II". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved March 3, 2018. "Roger Sessions". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved March 3, 2018. "Scott Joplin". The...
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in a few works including the operas Die Gezeichneten and Irrelohe. Roger Sessions included a basset horn in the orchestra of his Violin Concerto (1935)...
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and writer Roger Sessions, American music composer Roger Hale Sheaffe, British general, one of the principal commanders of War of 1812 Roger Sheaffe (politician)...
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Milton Babbitt (category Pupils of Roger Sessions)
Arts & Science in 1935 with Phi Beta Kappa honors, he studied under Roger Sessions, first privately and then at Princeton University. He joined Princeton's...
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an 1884 opera by Frederick Grant Gleason Montezuma (Sessions opera), a 1963 opera by Roger Sessions Montezuma, or La Conquista, a 2005 opera by Lorenzo...
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Edward T. Cone (category Pupils of Roger Sessions)
was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. He studied composition under Roger Sessions at Princeton University, receiving his bachelor's in 1939 (Latin salutatorian...
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Benjamin Boretz (category Pupils of Roger Sessions)
Festival and School, with Lukas Foss at UCLA, and with Milton Babbitt and Roger Sessions at Princeton University. Boretz was one of the first composers to work...
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Roger Sessions' Violin Concerto was composed between 1927 and 1935, and is scored for violin and orchestra (without violins). The violin concerto was begun...
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without conductor, by Andrzej Panufnik (1979) Concerto for Orchestra, by Roger Sessions (1979–81), which won him the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1982. Concerto...
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Peter Maxwell Davies (category Pupils of Roger Sessions)
help of Aaron Copland and Benjamin Britten); there he studied with Roger Sessions, Milton Babbitt and Earl Kim. He then moved to Australia, where he was...
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(Le fosse Ardeatine) by William Schuman, 1968 Symphony No. 9 (Sessions) by Roger Sessions, 1978 Symphony No. 9 (Shostakovich) in E-flat major (Op. 70)...
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Einojuhani Rautavaara (category Pupils of Roger Sessions)
he was taught by Vincent Persichetti, and he also took lessons from Roger Sessions and Aaron Copland at Tanglewood. Reflecting on his time enrolled in...
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John Harbison (category Pupils of Roger Sessions)
Institute of Technology. He is a former student of Walter Piston and Roger Sessions. His works include several symphonies, string quartets, and concerti...
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Frederic Rzewski (category Pupils of Roger Sessions)
Harvard, and Princeton, where his teachers included Randall Thompson, Roger Sessions, Walter Piston, and Milton Babbitt. In 1960, he went to Italy on a Fulbright...
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Richard Maxfield (category Pupils of Roger Sessions)
studied at Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley (with Roger Sessions) and privately with Ernst Krenek in Los Angeles. A Hertz Prize travel...
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David Diamond (composer) (category Pupils of Roger Sessions)
Eastman School of Music under Bernard Rogers, also receiving lessons from Roger Sessions in New York City and Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He won a number of awards...
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Lowery Sessions, in 1887. They had four children, including composer Roger Sessions. One daughter died in infancy in 1891. Ruth Huntington Sessions died...
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Mark Brunswick (category Pupils of Roger Sessions)
composition with Ernest Bloch in Cleveland (where he met fellow student Roger Sessions, with whom he maintained a lifelong friendship) and Nadia Boulanger...
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The Symphony No. 3 of Roger Sessions was written in 1957. It was a result of a commission by the Koussevitzky Foundation to celebrate the 75th anniversary...
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As a teenager, Citkowitz studied composition with Aaron Copland and Roger Sessions. He later traveled to Paris where he studied counterpoint with Nadia...
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