Episode 40 - 1982: Roger Sessions, Concerto for Orchestra
Hearing The Pulitzers
English - January 16, 2023 02:12 - 27 minutes - 63.2 MBMusic History Music Music Commentary Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 39 - 1981: No Winner
In this episode, Dave and Andrew discuss the third winner of the Pulitzer Prize to study with Horatio Parker at Yale, Roger Sessions, for his Concerto for Orchestra. Since the other two winners were Charles Ives and Quincy Porter, it isn't a shock that Sessions was 85 years old when he won. What will they think about this blast from the past?
If you'd like to learn more about Roger Sessions, we recommend:
Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays, edited by Edward T. Cone (Princeton University Press, 1979).
Andrea Olmstead's book Roger Sessions: A Biography (Routledge, 2008).
The Correspondence of Roger Sessions by Andrea Olmstead and
Roger Sessions (Northeastern University Press, 1992)
The Roger Sessions Society