{{Short description|American composer (1893–1968)}} {{Other people}} '''Bernard Rogers''' (4 February 1893 – 24 May 1968) was an American composer. His best known work is ''The Passion'', an oratorio written in 1942.{{sfn|Ewen|1982|p=539}}
==Life and career== {{ external media | width = 230px | audio1 = You may hear Bernard Rogers' ''Soliloquy for Flute and String Orchestra'' performed by Howard Hanson conducting the Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra and Joseph Mariano, flute in 1941 [https://archive.org/details/AmericanWorksForSoloWinds-NEWTRANSFER/02.WayneBarlow-RhapsodytheWintersPastForOboeAndStringOrchestra.mp3'''Here on archive.org''']}} 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,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Aaron I. |title=International encyclopedia of women composers. 2: Sai - Zyb, Appendices |date=1987 |publisher=Books & Music |isbn=978-0-9617485-1-7 |edition=2. ed., revised and enl |location=New York |pages=615}}</ref> Robert Ward, John Weinzweig, Norma Wendelburg, Richard Lane, Clifton Williams and Laurence Rosenthal among others.{{citation needed|date=September 2017|reason=Claims about a dead person's specific students}}
He joined the Eastman faculty in 1929.<ref name="retire1">(5 May 1967). [https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/136577576/ Bernard Rogers Plans to Retire], ''Democrat and Chronicle'', p. 15 (paywall)</ref> 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.<ref name="nytobit"/>
He was a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity.<ref>[http://delta-omicron.org/index00.html Delta Omicron] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100127130549/http://delta-omicron.org/index00.html |date=January 27, 2010 }}</ref>
Rogers retired from Eastman in 1967. He died in Rochester on May 24, 1968, two days after a heart attack.<ref name="nytobit">(25 May 1968). [https://www.nytimes.com/1968/05/25/archives/bernard-rogers-composer-is-dead-eastman-teacher-wrote-operas-and.html Bernard Rogers, Composer, Is Dead; Eastman Teacher Wrote Operas and Symphonies], ''The New York Times'', p. 35 (paywall)</ref><Ref name="greece1">(25 February 1993). [https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn88074413/1993-02-25/ed-1/seq-23/ Eastman Wind Ensemble remembers Bernard Rogers], ''The Greece Post'' (Greece, New York), p. 23</ref><ref name="demoobit">(25 May 1968). [https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/136611919/ Bernard Rogers Dies, Composer, Teacher], ''Democrat and Chronicle'', p. 14 (paywall)</ref>
==Notable students== {{For LMST|Bernard|Rogers}}
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===Sources=== * {{cite book |last=Ewen |first=David |year=1982 |title=American Composers |publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons |location=New York |isbn=978-0-399-12626-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/americancomposer00davi |url-access=limited }}
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20171004195121/http://www.presser.com/composer/rogers-bernard/ Bernard Rogers' page at Theodore Presser Company] *[https://www.esm.rochester.edu/sibley/specialcollections/findingaids/brogers/ Bernard Rogers Collection] at Eastman School of Music
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