What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.
Roger SessionsAbout author
- Author's profession: Composer
- Nationality: american
- Born: December 28, 1896
- Died: March 16, 1985
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