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Roger Huntington Sessions (28 December 1896 – 16 March 1985) was an American composer, critic and teacher of music. Events 1065 - Westminster Abbey is Consecrated. 1308 - The reign of Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Year 1896 ( MDCCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Events 597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance

Born in Brooklyn, New York to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution, Sessions studied music at Harvard University from the age of 14. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. There, he wrote for and subsequently edited the Harvard Musical Review. Graduating at age 18, he went on to study at Yale University under Horatio Parker and Ernest Bloch before teaching at Smith College. Horatio Parker ( September 15, 1863 – December 18, 1919) was an American composer and teacher Ernest Bloch (July 24 1880 &ndash July 15 1959 was a Swiss -born American Composer. Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton Massachusetts. His first major compositions were made while travelling Europe in his mid twenties and early thirties with his wife.

Returning to the United States in 1933, he taught first at Princeton University, moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught from 1946 to 1954, and then returned to Princeton until retiring in 1965, although he continued to teach on a part-time basis at the Juilliard School until 1983. Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. The University of California ( UC) is a Public university system in the state of California. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. The Juilliard School, located in New York City, is a world renowned Performing arts conservatory. Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) His notable students include Milton Babbitt, Larry Thomas Bell, Peter Maxwell Davies, David Del Tredici, Carlton Gamer, Miriam Gideon, John Harbison, Robert Helps, Will Ogdon, Walter Hekster, Andrew Imbrie, Claire Polin, William Schimmel, George Tsontakis, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, John Veale, Roger Nixon, Alan Fletcher and Peter Westergaard. Milton Byron Babbitt (born May 10 1916 is an American Composer. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, CBE (b 8 September 1934 is an English Composer and conductor. David Del Tredici, born March 16, 1937 in Cloverdale California, is an American composer. Carlton Gamer (born 1929 in Chicago Illinois is an American composer and music theorist Miriam Gideon ( 23 October 1906 - 1996 was an American Composer. John Harris Harbison (born December 20, 1938 in Orange New Jersey) is a Composer, best known for his Operas Robert Helps (b Passaic, New Jersey, United States, 1928 d Tampa, Florida, United States November 24, 2001 Will Ogdon (b April 19, 1921) is an American composer He taught at the University of California San Diego beginning in 1966 and retiring in 1991 Walter Hekster (born March 29, 1937 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch Composer, Clarinetist and conductor of Classical Andrew Walsh Imbrie (April 6 1921 &ndash December 5 2007 was an American Composer of contemporary classical music. Claire Polin (1926–1995 was an American composer of Contemporary classical music and flutist William Schimmel (1946 -) is one of the principal architects in the resurgence of the Accordion, the revival of the Tango in America and the philosophy of "Musical George Tsontakis (born Astoria Queens (New York City October 24, 1951) is an American Composer and conductor. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (born April 30, 1939, in Miami Florida) is an American Composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize John Douglas Louis Veale ( June 15 1922 - November 16 2006) was an English Classical composer. Roger Nixon (born August 8, 1921) is an American Composer, musician and professor of music Alan Fletcher (born 1956 is President and CEO of the Aspen Music Festival and School and both an accomplished music administrator and respected composer Peter Talbot Westergaard (born 1931) is an American Composer and Music theorist.

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Style

His works from the Solo Violin Sonata of 1953 on are almost all serial. In Music, serialism is a technique for composition that uses sets to describe musical elements, and allows the manipulation of those Those up to 1930 or so are more or less neoclassical in sound, while those written between 1930 and 1951 are more or less tonal but harmonically complex. Neoclassicism in music was a 20th century development particularly popular in the period between the two World Wars in which composers drew inspiration from music of the 18th century Tonality is a system of Music in which specific hierarchical pitch relationships are based on a key "center" or tonic. The opening minutes of the Second and Third Symphonies, the one nominally in D minor, the other serial though still somewhat tonal, might be contrasted in this connection, the former chaotic and over the map, the latter birdsong influenced, at peace; not quite the relation between tonal and less tonal/serial music that usually prevails. (Then again, the opening movement of the Fourth Symphony, a Burlesque, quotes the aforementioned passage from the Second, in agitation not least, and matters are put to rights. )

Major Works

Some works received their first professional performance many years after completion. Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 The Sixth Symphony (1966) was given its first complete performance March 4 1977 by the Juilliard Orchestra in New York City [1]

The Ninth Symphony (1978), commissioned by the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and Frederik Prausnitz, was premiered January 17 1980 by the same orchestra conducted by Christopher Keene. The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra (SSO is a 79 member Orchestra located in Syracuse NY. [2]

Publications

External links

  1. ^ "News Section" (June 1977). Tempo New Ser. (121): 49.  
  2. ^ Olmstead, Andrea (September 1980). "Roger Sessions's 9th Symphony". Tempo New Ser. (133/134): 79.  
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