Bernard Rogers
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Bernard Rogers (4 February 1893 – 24 May 1968) was an American composer.
Rogers was born in New York City. He studied with Arthur Farwell, Ernest Bloch, Percy Goetschius, and Nadia Boulanger. He taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music, The Hartt School, and the Eastman School of Music. He retired from the latter school in 1967, and died in Rochester, New York. His pupils included Stephen Albert, Dominick Argento, Jacob Avshalomov, William Bergsma, David Borden, Will Gay Bottje, David Diamond, Walter Hartley, Ulysses Kay, John La Montaine, W. Francis McBeth, Ron Nelson, Burrill Phillips, Gardner Read, H. Owen Reed, Robert Ward, John Weinzweig, and Clifton Williams among others.
Bernard Rogers composed five operas, five symphonies, other works for orchestra, chamber music, three cantatas, choral music and Lieder. His one-act opera "The Warrior," for which Norman Corwin wrote the libretto, received its premiere at The Metropolitan Opera on January 11, 1947.
He was a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity.[1]
Notable students
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References
External links
- Bernard Rogers' page at Theodore Presser Company
- Bernard Rogers Collection at Eastman School of Music
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- 1893 births
- 1968 deaths
- 20th-century classical composers
- American male classical composers
- American classical composers
- Cleveland Institute of Music faculty
- Guggenheim Fellows
- The Hartt School faculty
- Jewish classical composers
- Eastman School of Music faculty
- Pupils of Percy Goetschius
- Pupils of Nadia Boulanger
- Pupils of Ernest Bloch
- Musicians from New York City
- American male composers
- American opera composers
- 20th-century American musicians
- American composer, 19th-century birth stubs