Roger Dickerson

1934 -

About

Roger Dickerson (b. 1934),  a native New Orleanian, earned a BA degree (cum laude) in music from Dillard University, an MM degree in music composition from Indiana University and studied composition on two Fulbright Fellowships at the Akademie fuer Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Austria. He has been the recipient of numerous commissions and awards. A retired university professor, Dickerson has served as Program Associate in Humanities with the Institute for Services to Education, Inc. (Washington, D.C.), Adjunct Professor for composition and orchestration at Xavier University, Lecturer of Music at Dillard University and as University Choir Director, and Music Coordinator, at Southern University at New Orleans. In recent years, Dickerson--as an associate in composition--has worked with Thelonius Monk Institute students at Loyola University of New Orleans. Presently, the music for Dickerson's musical, PREACHER MAN! PREACHER MAN!, with playwright John O’Neal, is nearing completion. The work, a full-evening musical comedy, is firmly set in 1948 New Orleans. Dickerson received Pulitzer Nominations for both his A Musical Service for Louis (a Requiem for Louis Armstrong), 1972, and his New Orleans Concerto for piano and orchestra in 1976. These commissioned works were premiered under the baton of Werner Torkanowsky conducting the New Orleans Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.  The composer has been the subject of a sixty-minute documentary film, New Orleans Concerto, which was made a PBS Special for national television.

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http://www.darryltaylor.com/alliance/users/details/roger-dickerson, http://africlassical.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-celebration-of-music-roger-donald.html

Works by Roger Dickerson