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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2010
‘A concerto of relatively small dimensions’ is RogerSessions's own characterization of his Concertinofor Chamber Orchestra. In a programme noteaccompanying the recording and (in slightly abridgedform) the score, the composer explains how hisconception of the work arose largely from practical,though artistically relevant, circumstances. TheConcertino, written in 1971–72, had beencommissioned by the Fromm Foundation for TheContemporary Chamber Players of the University ofChicago, a group directed by the wellknown composerand conductor Ralph Shapey:
… Mr. Shapey's organization is composed of players who,especially among the woodwinds, are accustomed toplaying several instruments in their chosencategories. Since this work, designed as it is foran orchestra of chamber dimension, … by conceptionas well as by the demands of the medium itself,emphasizes solo performance, I decided to availmyself of the players' versatility and give each ofthe various available instruments a significant roleto play.
1. Published by Edward B. Marks Music Corp., New York, 1972. The recording, by the Contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago under Ralph Shapey, is by Desto Records (DC 7155).
2. ‘Problems and Issues Facing the Composer Today’ in Problems of Modern Music, Lang, Paul Henry, ed., W. W. Norton & Co., New York, 1960, p. 28 Google Scholar.
3. Ibid., p. 25.
4. Ibid., p. 28.
5. ‘In Honor of Roger Sessions’, Perspectives of New Music Vol. 10 No. 2, Spring–Summer 1972, pp. 140–41Google Scholar.
6. ‘Problems and Issues’, pp. 29–30.
7. Quoted in Cone, Edward T., ‘Conversation with Roger Sessions’. Perspectives on American Composers, Boretz, Benjamin and Cone, Edwart T., eds., W. W. Norton & Co., New York, 1971, p. 105 Google Scholar.