How Long to Read Roger Sessions

How Long Does it Take to Read Roger Sessions?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 19 minutes to read Roger Sessions by Frederik Prausnitz

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

For more than half of his long life, composer Roger Sessions was a commanding figure on the American musical scene. He enjoyed the solid respect of his peers, and as a teacher of a generation of composers and author of compelling writings on his craft, his influence on musical thought remains profound. Yet, even in his lifetime, his music endured vastly disrespectful neglect. He was a "difficult" composer. Sessions was well aware of it. In a New York Times article, he wrote, "I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener. There are those who consider this as praise, those who consider it a reproach. For my part I regard it as, in itself, neither one or the other...it is the way the music comes, the way it has to come." The way Sessions's music "had to come" is a recurrent focus of this biography. As the story is told, often in the composer's own words, the complex picture emerges of a remarkable man who, gradually and not very willingly, learned to accept his unexpected lot as a "difficult" composer. Frederik Prausnitz, an acquaintance of Sessions and conductor of his work, combines personal and musical insights to present this fascinating portrait of an influential, yet often overlooked, modernist composer.

How long is Roger Sessions?

Roger Sessions by Frederik Prausnitz is 368 pages long, and a total of 94,944 words.

This makes it 124% the length of the average book. It also has 116% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Roger Sessions Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 38 minutes to read Roger Sessions aloud.

What Reading Level is Roger Sessions?

Roger Sessions is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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