At the dress rehearsal at the Juilliard Theatre the 80 year old Roger Sessions came up to Boulez to discuss some details of balance and articulation. Boulez didn’t seem to
be listening at all. His manner was curt and dismissive with the elder composer. I heard this exchange from the stage of the Juilliard Theatre and I jumped down to the floor to talk with my teacher and distract him if he were upset. Sessions was a stoic New Englander and didn’t seem at all upset. He was glad his music was being played. I was upset to see him treated with such indiƯerence. There is one funny thing I remember around the time of the audition. Every year the Philharmonic would play a joint concert with the All City Orchestra. This event would concert where both orchestras would play side by side.
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