Rogers, Bernard

Composed 1939. First performance Rochester Civic Orchestra, Rochester, N.Y., 25 October 1939, Howard Hanson conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Title changed by composer to "Three Eastern Dances." Composed 1932. First performance Rochester, New York, 3 May 1934, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Howard Hanson conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Commissioned by The Louisville Orchestra. First performance Louisville, Kentucky, 28 October 1953, The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Composed 1934. First performance Rochester, New York, 16 January 1936, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Howard Hanson conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Composed 1926. First performance Rochester, N.Y., 29 April 1927, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Howard Hanson conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Commissioned by the League of Composers. Composed 1940. First performance in a CBS radio broadcast, New York, 3 May 1941, Columbia Concert Orchestra, Howard Barlow conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Theme is a Thanksgiving hymn. Composed 1936. First performance Rochester, N.Y., 27 October 1937, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Howard Hanson conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Composed 1940. First performance Eastman School of Music, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Rochester, N.Y., 25 April 1940, Howard Hanson conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Composed 1936. First performance Eastman School of Music, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Rochester, N.Y., 29 April 1937, Howard Hanson conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Composed 1928. First performance Rochester, N.Y., 24 October 1930, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Howard Hanson conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Composed 1938. First performance Rochester, N.Y., 18 October 1938, Rochester Civic Orchestra, Howard Hanson conductor, Vincent Pezzi soloist.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Composed 1939. First performance Cincinnati, 21 March 1940, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Goossens conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Composed 1938. First performance Rochester, N.Y., 25 April 1938, Rochester Civic Orchestra, Guy Fraser Harrison conductor, Joseph Mariano flute, Mordecai Luri, viola.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Composed 1947. First performance Rochester, New York, 6 May 1948, Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra, Howard Hanson conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Composed 1954. First performance Rochester, New York, 11 February 1955, Rochester Philharmonic, Erich Leinsdorf conductor, Morris Secon soloist.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Bernard Rogers (1893-1968) was an American composer and music teacher.

Born in New York City, Rogers studied at the Institute of Music Art in New York. He married his first wife Ann, with whom he had a daughter; after Ann's death he married Elizabeth Mary Clark in 1938.

Rogers taught at the Eastman School of Music for nearly forty years (1929-1967), as well as teaching at the Cleveland School of Music and the Hartt School in Connecticut. Awards and recognitions include a Pulitzer traveling scholarship (1921), Guggenheim Fellowship (1927-1929), Juillard commission (1947), Fulbright Award (1953), and Ford Foundation commission (1960), as well as honorary degrees from Valparaiso University (1959) and Wayne University (1962). Rogers was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and a patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity.