George Perle et al. in Juilliard School - 19 February, 1982
from The Nantucket Diary of Ned Rorem 1973-1985, page 347:
With George Perle to Julliard's conscientious production of Roger Sessions's Montezuma, a concerto for two xylophones and orchestra with incidental human voices. That the voices were incidental is fortunate, the text (by Borgese) being as stilted and puerile a libretto as ever penned. Sessions lived with that text for twenty-two years! His piece is a mess, charmless, without music.
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Ned Rorem, The Nantucket Diary of Ned Rorem 1973-1985, volume 2 (San Francisco, 1987), p. 347. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1435320061754 accessed: 25 April, 2024
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Montezuma
written by Roger Sessions |
performed by Julliard School |
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| Date/Time | 19 February, 1982 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by pashworth on Fri, 26 Jun 2015 13:01:02 +0100
Approved on Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:50:41 +0000