tTOSSY SPIVAKOVSKY (violin)
BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA Leader, Peter Gibbs
Conducted by Jacques Louis MONOD
Roger Sessions , composer and music educator, was born in Brooklyn in 1896. Since 1945 he has been professor of music, first at Berkeley, California, and later at Princeton. His orchestral works include four symphonies, the latest of which is to have its first broadcast performance here on December 17. The Violin Concerto (1935) has four movements; it is scored for large orchestra which includes triple wood-wind and basset-horn but no violins.