| Title: |
Reminiscences of Roger Huntington Sessions
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP87-A139
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Individual Interview List Oral History Project
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| Description: |
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.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 309 leaves
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open. Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1975. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information. Microfiche copy available for purchase. (Columbia University oral history collection, part II, published by Meckler Publishing, Westport, CT).
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1962 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Sessions, Roger, 1896-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1896
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| Speaker occupation: |
Composer
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| Age at speaking: |
66
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| Document date: |
1962
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| Interviewer: |
Rounds, Frank W.
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Composers; Composition (Music); Conservatories of music; Music--Instruction and study
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Music--Performance; Music--Theory; Sessions, Roger, 1896-
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0017260-12703
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