Reminiscences of Roger Huntington Sessions, 1962

Biographical Note

Composer; interviewee d. 1985

Scope and Contents

New England background; early music lessons and first composition, 1909; Harvard MUSICAL REVIEW, 1913; Yale Music School, 1915-1917: Horatio Parker; Smith College, 1919-1921; teaching music theory, Roy Welch; Cleveland Conservatory, Ernest Bloch; fellowships and work abroad, 1925-1933: Florence, Rome, Berlin; comments on his own compositions, as well as on techniques of composition, tonality, harmony, teaching young composers, and on many artists, especially Igor Stravinsky, Otto Klemperer

Subjects

• Composers--Interviews.
• Composition (Music)
• Conservatories of music.
• Interviews.
• Music--Instruction and study.
• Music--Performance.
• Music theory.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Rounds, Frank W., interviewer.
• Sessions, Roger, 1896-1985--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1975