REFLECTIONS
on the MUSIC LIFE
in the UNITED STATES


This is Volume VI of the MERLIN MUSIC BOOKS (8 volumes).

Published in this series thus far:

  1. I. Bach: The Conflict Between the Sacred and the Secular, byLeo Schrade, Professor of The History of Music, Yale University.
  2. II. Tudor Church Music, by Denis Stevens, British BroadcastingCorporation, London.
  3. III. Stravinsky, Classic Humanist, by Heinrich Strobel,Director, Music Division, Southwest German Radio System, Baden-Baden.
  4. IV. Musicians and Poets of the French Renaissance, by FrançoisLesure, Librarian, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Chief,Central Secretariat of “Répertoire International des SourcesMusicales.
  5. V. Greek Music, Verse and Dance, by Thrasybulos Georgiades,Professor of Musicology, University of Munich.
  6. VI. Reflections on the Music Life in the United States, byRoger Sessions, Professor of Composition, Princeton University.

REFLECTIONS
on the MUSIC LIFE
in the United States

ROGER SESSIONS

MERLIN PRESS—NEW YORK


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COPIES WERE MADE

THIS IS NUMBER 175


CONTENTS

Page
I.Background and Conditions11
II.Early History33
III.Concerts48
IV.Musical Theater74
V.Music Education98
VI.Musical Opinion121
VII.Composers and Their Ideas:140
Nationalism140
Quest for Popularity153
Countercurrents166

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