464 Pages
by
Routledge
460 Pages
by
Routledge
464 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
