Sessions, Roger: Roger Sessions.(Brief article)(Book review)

Sessions, Roger

Roger Sessions. A Biography. Andrea Olmstead. New York: Routledge, 2008. xvii + 441 pp. $120.00.

"Sessions receives surprisingly little attention, despite his status as one of the most significant American composers of the twentieth century.... The bulk of the work on Sessions has been done by Andrea Olmstead, his erstwhile colleague at Juilliard.... Olmstead paints an honest but sympathetic portrait of a composer frequently thought of as brainy.... The extreme attention to detail is at times overwhelming, hampering the narrative flow.... Yet the painstaking research is quite often …