Roger Sessions On How To Learn To Listen To Difficult Music

Once, with a class of fifty students, all relatively unpre­pared and some quite innocent of contact with contem­porary music, I tried the experiment of familiarizing them, at the beginning of the course, with Schoenberg’s Fourth Quartet, one of the composer’s most “difficult” works. My whole effort was to bring them … Read entire story.

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