TheSymphony No. 3 ofRoger Sessions was written in 1957. It was a result of a commission by theKoussevitzky Foundation to celebrate the 75th anniversary of theBoston Symphony Orchestra, and was premiered by the Boston Symphony on December 6, 1957, conducted byCharles Munch.^[1] Sessions later was commissioned by the Boston Symphony on their centenary, when he provided them with his Concerto for Orchestra (premiered 1981).Andrea Olmstead describes all of Sessions's symphonies as "serious" and "funereal", with No. 3 being one of four with, "quiet reflective endings."^[2]

It is scored for threeflutes, threeoboes, fourclarinets, threebassoons, fourhorns, twotrumpets, threetrombones, onetuba,timpani, percussion, acelesta, aharp andstrings.^[3]

It is in fourmovements:

1. Allegro grazioso e con fuoco^[4]
2. Allegro, un poco ruvido^[4]
3. Andante sostenuto e con affetto^[4]
4. Allegro con fuoco^[4]

1. Igor Buketoff,Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (1968?, RCA) (CRI CD)

• Imbrie, Andrew (1972). "The Symphonies of Roger Sessions".Tempo (new series), no. 103 (December): 24–32.
• Koh, Tse-Ying (1995). "The Twelve-Tone Method and the Classical Tradition in Roger Sessions'Symphony No. 3". M.M. thesis. Houston: Rice University.

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