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Roger Sessions Frederik Prausnitz (Director of Conducting Program the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Director of Conducting Program the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Johns Hopkins University)

Roger Sessions By Frederik Prausnitz (Director of Conducting Program the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Director of Conducting Program the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Johns Hopkins University)

Summary

For more than half of his long life, composer Roger Sessions was a commanding figure on the American musical scene. Yet he was a difficult composer. As the story is told, often in the composer's own words, the complex picture emerges of a remarkable man who, gradually learned, not very willingly, to accept his unexpected lot.

Roger Sessions Summary

Roger Sessions: How a Difficult Composer Got That Way by Frederik Prausnitz (Director of Conducting Program the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Director of Conducting Program the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Johns Hopkins University)

Composer Roger Sessions was a commanding figure on the American musical scene. He enjoyed the solid respect of his peers, and as a teacher of a generation of composers and author of compelling writings on his craft, his influence on musical thought remains profound. Yet, even in his lifetime, his music endured vastly disrespectful neglect. He was a difficult composer. Sessions was well aware of it. In a New York Times article, he wrote, I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener. There are those who consider this as praise, those who consider it a reproach. For my part I regard it as, in itself, neither one or the other...it is the way the music comes, the way it has to come. The way Sessions's music had to come is a recurrent focus of this biography. As the story is told, often in the composer's own words, the complex picture emerges of a remarkable man who, gradually and not very willingly, learned to accept his unexpected lot as a difficult composer. Frederik Prausnitz, an acquaintance of Sessions and conductor of his work, combines personal and musical insights to present this fascinating portrait of an influential, yet often overlooked, modernist composer.

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A thorough study of previously unpublished materials. * Symphony *

About Frederik Prausnitz (Director of Conducting Program the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Director of Conducting Program the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Johns Hopkins University)

Frederik Prausnitz, now retired, was a conductor with the BBC Symphony, the New Philharmonia Orchestra of London, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Juilliard Orchestra, and his own chamber ensemble. He also taught in the conducting program at the Peabody Conservatory of Music for many years. In 1974, he was the recipient of the American Bruckner Society's Mahler Medal of Honor. Roger Sessions's Ninth Symphony is dedicated to him.

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NPB9780195108927
9780195108927
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Roger Sessions: How a Difficult Composer Got That Way by Frederik Prausnitz (Director of Conducting Program the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Director of Conducting Program the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Johns Hopkins University)
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Oxford University Press Inc
2002-09-12
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