Andrea Olmstead

Roger Sessions (eBook, PDF)

A Biography

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Produktbeschreibung

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 the American Academy, and a MacDowell Medal, in addition to 14 honorary doctorates.

Roger Sessions: A Biography brings together considerable previously unpublished archival material, such as letters, lectures, interviews, and articles, to shed light on the life and music of this major American composer. Andrea Olmstead, a teaching colleague of Sessions at Juilliard and the leading scholar on his music, has written a complete biography charting five touchstone areas through Sessions's eighty-eight years: music, religion, politics, money, and sexuality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135868932
• Artikelnr.: 38243074

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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