Shawn Colvin
American singer-songwriter
Roger Sessions
American composer, critic, and teacher of music (1896-1985)
Roger Huntington Sessionswas an American composer, teacher, and writer on music. He had initially started his career writing in a neoclassical style, but gradually moved further towards more complex harmonies and postromanticism, and finally the twelve-tone serialism of the Second Viennese School.
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Roger Huntington Sessionswas an American composer, teacher, and writer on music. He had initially started his career writing in a neoclassical style, but gradually moved further towards more complex harmonies and postromanticism, and finally the twelve-tone serialism of the Second Viennese School. Sessions’ friendship with Arnold Schoenberg influenced this, but he would modify the technique to develop a unique style involving rows to supply melodic thematic material, while composing the subsidiary parts in a free and dissonant manner.
3 Quotes by Roger Sessions
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What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience – experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.
Roger SessionsAmerican composer, critic, and teacher of music (1896-1985)
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But communication is two-sided – vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it… demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.
Roger SessionsAmerican composer, critic, and teacher of music (1896-1985)
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I have sometimes been told that my music is ‘difficult’ for the listener.
Roger SessionsAmerican composer, critic, and teacher of music (1896-1985)