Roger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music. He had started his career writing in a neoclassical style, but gradually moved towards complex harmonies and postroman
Portrait of Sessions by Harold Weston (c. 1920s)
The Juilliard School is a private conservatory for performing arts in New York City, United States. Founded by Frank Damrosch as the Institute of Musical Art in 1905, the school later added dance and
Roger Sessions
…at Berkeley (1966–67), and gave the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University in 1968–69. He continued to teach on a part-time basis at the Juilliard School from 1966 until 1983. He was a friend of both Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann…
Frank Damrosch, founder of the Institute of Musical Art, commonly referred to as the "Damrosch School"
Columbia University English professor and first president of Juilliard, John Erskine
The Juilliard School at the Lincoln Center as initially opened in 1969