I have sometimes been told that my music is ‘difficult’ for the listener.
About Roger Sessions
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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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.
American composer, critic, and teacher of music (1896-1985)
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.
American composer, critic, and teacher of music (1896-1985)
I have sometimes been told that my music is ‘difficult’ for the listener.
American composer, critic, and teacher of music (1896-1985)