Symphony No. 8 (Sessions)
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Symphony No. 8 (Sessions)
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The Symphony No. 8 of Roger Sessions was composed in 1968. It is a work in two movements lasting together about fourteen minutes: Adagio e mesto
Allegro con brio Noteworthy in the context of Sessions' symphonies is the use of maracas to accompany the theme in the first movement. Andrea Olmstead describes all of Sessions's symphonies as "serious" and "funereal", with No. 8 being one of four with, "quiet reflective endings." No. 8 combines the, "fearsome rhythmic and harmonic densities," of his ma
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