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    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 the fifth studio album by British musician Roger Waters, released on 9 December 2022 by Legacy Recordings. It compiles home recordings...
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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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  • 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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  • Alexander Glazunov David Maslanka Vincent Persichetti Alfred Schnittke Roger Sessions Ralph Vaughan Williams Boris Tishchenko In 2012, composer Philip Glass...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Wizards Roger Sessions (1896–1985), American composer Tiffany Sessions (born 1968), American woman who has been missing since 1989 Walter L. Sessions (1820–1896)...
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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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    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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  • Lejaren Hiller (category Pupils of Roger Sessions)
    clarinet, and saxophone as a child. He also studied composition with Roger Sessions and Milton Babbitt while earning his chemistry degree at Princeton University...
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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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  • The Symphony No. 2 of Roger Sessions was begun in 1944 and completed in 1946. It is in four movements: Molto agitato – Tranquillo e misterioso (D minor...
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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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  • Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (category Pupils of Roger Sessions)
    in composition. Her teachers included John Boda, Elliott Carter, and Roger Sessions. She first came to prominence when Pierre Boulez programmed her Symposium...
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  • As a teenager, Citkowitz studied composition with Aaron Copland and Roger Sessions, and counterpoint in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. From 1927 to 1929,...
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    Conlon Nancarrow (category Pupils of Roger Sessions)
    first in Cincinnati, Ohio, and later in Boston, Massachusetts, with Roger Sessions, Walter Piston and Nicolas Slonimsky. He met Arnold Schoenberg during...
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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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  • (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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    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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    Kim (1920–1998) studied with teachers including Arnold Schoenberg and Roger Sessions. John Adams Anthony Brandt [pupils] Harrison Birtwistle [pupils] Curt...
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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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  • The Symphony No. 4 of Roger Sessions was composed in 1958. It has three movements: Burlesque Elegy Pastorale It was commissioned by the Minneapolis Symphony...
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  • The Symphony No. 5 of Roger Sessions was commissioned in 1960 and completed in 1964. It was commissioned by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra...
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