Background
Sessions, Roger Huntington was born on December 28, 1896 in Brooklyn. Son of Archibald Lowery and Ruth Gregson (Huntington) Sessions.
Sessions, Roger Huntington was born on December 28, 1896 in Brooklyn. Son of Archibald Lowery and Ruth Gregson (Huntington) Sessions.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1915, Doctor of Music, 1964. Bachelor of Music, Yale University, 1917. Doctor of Music, Wesleyan University, 1958, Rutgers University, 1962, New England Conservatory, 1966, Amherst College, 1969, Williams College, 1971, Princeton University, 1972, Cleveland Institute Music, 1975, Boston University, 1977.
Doctor of Laws, Brandeis University, 1965.
A.F.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1966. Doctor of Fine Arts, University of California at Berkeley, 1967, Northwestern University, 1971.
Doctorate.A., Rider College, 1978.
Instructor music Smith College, 1919-1921. Teacher theory Cleveland Institute Music, 1921-1925. Resided in, Florence, Rome, Berlin, 1925-1933.
Instructor Boston University College Music, 1933-1935.
Lecturer New Jersey College for Women, 1935-1937. Instructor Princeton University, 1935-1937, assistant professor, 1937-1940, associate professor, 1940-1945.
Professor music University of California at Berkeley, 1945. Fulbright scholar Academia Luigi Cherubini, Florence, Italy, 1951-1952.
William Shubael Conant professor music Princeton, 1953-1965.
Faculty Juilliard School Music, New York City, 1965-1985. Ernest Bloch professor music University of California, Berkeley, 1966-1967. Charles Eliot Norton professor Harvard University, 1968-1969.
Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, International Society Contemporary Music (honorary), American Academy Arts and Letters, League of Composers, International Society for Contemporary Music (co-chairman United States section), Broadcast Music, National Institute Arts and Letters.
Married Barbara Foster, 1920. Children: John Porter, Elizabeth Phelps.