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8 results for "Sessions, Roger"

8 results for "Sessions, Roger"

Roger Sessions

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Title: Concertino
Commission: 1967
Completed: 1972
Instrumentation: chamber ensemble
Premiere Location: Mandel Hall at University of Chicago
Premiere Ensemble: Contemporary Chamber Players
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Bahar Royaee

Person

The music of Iranian composer/sound designer Bahar Royaee has been acclaimed as “succeed(ing) as a poetic incantation, brimming with ideas and colors” (Classical Voice North America) and “haunting” (Boston Arts Review). Working in NYC and Boston, Bahar...

Princeton Seminars (1959 &1960)

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Paul Fromm and the Princeton Seminars in Advanced Musical Study During the 1950s, Paul Fromm became increasingly preoccupied with the plight of young composers in the United States. He worried that composers were isolated from one another with little...

Andrew Waggoner

Person

Title: Fifth Quartet
Commission: 2018
Completed: 2020
Instrumentation: string quartet
Premiere Location: February 5, 2022 at Slosberg Recital Hall, Brandeis University
Premiere Ensemble: Lydian String Quartet
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Andrew Waggoner was born in 1960 in New...

Tod Machover

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Title: Bug Mudra
Commission: 1989
Completed: 1990
Instrumentation: two electric guitars, percussion, and hyperinstrument
Premiere Location: Bunkamura Theater, Tokyo
Premiere Ensemble:
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Tod Machover (b. 1953 in New York) has been called “America’s most...

Ira Taxin

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Title: Fanfares and Dialogues
Commission:
Completed: 1976
Instrumentation:
Premiere Location: Tanglewood Music Center, MA
Premiere Ensemble:
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Ira Taxin was born in New York City in 1950. His early theory and composition studies were with Ludmila Ulehla...

A Researcher in the Archives

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Rachel S. Vandagriff recently received her Ph.D. in music at the University of California, Berkeley. She spent time researching in the Fromm archives in 2011. Her research developed into her dissertation, “The History and Impact of the Fromm Music...

History of Fromm Players at Harvard

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The Fromm Players at Harvard have played a large part of the Fromm musical legacy. Called the Fromm Contemporary Music Series, The Fromm Players, and currently The Fromm Players at Harvard, these concerts feature performances of new works by living and...