Bernard Rogers

Training under Nadia Boulanger is recorded. Ulysses Kay is recorded as having studied under Bernard Rogers. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera and symphony. Employment is recorded with Eastman School of Music. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship.

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. His pupils included Stephen Albert, Dominick Argento, Jacob Avshalomov, William Bergsma, David Borden, Will Gay Bottje, David Diamond, Walter Hartley, Ronald Lo Presti, Ulysses Kay, Louis Mennini, John La Montaine, W. Francis McBeth, Ron Nelson, Burrill Phillips, Alice McElroy Procter, Gardner Read, H. Owen Reed, Margaret Vardell Sandresky, Robert Ward, John Weinzweig, Norma Wendelburg, Richard Lane, Clifton Williams and Laurence Rosenthal among others. He joined the Eastman faculty in 1929. He 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. Rogers retired from Eastman in 1967. He died in Rochester on May 24, 1968, two days after a heart attack.

Bernard Rogers is recorded as composer, musicologist, music educator and music teacher. Formation and teaching. He trained under Nadia Boulanger. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.