Background
Rorem, Ned was born on October 23, 1923 in Richmond, Indiana, United States. Son of Clarence Rufus and Gladys (Miller) Rorem.
( Ned Rorem is celebrated as one of America's greatest li...)
Ned Rorem is celebrated as one of America's greatest living composers. His diary of his early years, The Paris Diary and the New York Diary, was widely acclaimed. The Later Diaries continues one of the most sustained efforts in the intimate journal form ever undertaken and offers candid insights into his astonishing life, career, art, friendships, and love. In these years, Lions, Miss Julie, and Poems of Love and the Rain were composed and most of his books written; he also continued to meet the famous and infamous and to write of them with the charm that Janet Flanner characterized as "worldly, intelligent, licentious, highly indiscreet."
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One of America's most brilliant composers and diarists recreates the vibrancy, intrigues, and extraordinary accomplishments of the art world, the gay world, and the music world in New York and Paris during the 1940s and 1950s, offering vivid portraits of Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Paul and Jane Bowles, Truman Capote, and other leading figures of his generation. Photos.
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( "When it comes to letter writing, do artists resemble t...)
"When it comes to letter writing, do artists resemble their letters? Yes, except when they don’t." So wrote Ned Rorem in his 1998 review of Prokofiev’s letters. Over the years Ned Rorem has shown us the craft of autobiography in his four five elegant and moving diaries that span the last eighty decades. But besides the publication of his correspondence between himself and Paul Bowles, he has never published the vast correspondence he shared with a sublime mix of peopleLeontyne Price, Reynolds Price, Virgil Thompson, Angela Lansbury, Judy Collins, Gore Vidal, Cynthia Ozick. In Wings of Friendship Ned Rorem’s letters to these friends and forty others are assembled in chronological order and reveal the range of his interests and depth of his passionsa heart laid bare, billets doux.
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( Beginning with The Paris Diary in 1966 and continuing t...)
Beginning with The Paris Diary in 1966 and continuing through four subsequent volumes, Ned Rorem, one of the world's foremost living composers, has chronicled his life with a directness and honesty rare in American letters. He writes as he lives, introducing himself to readers as an artist and as a gay man, a citizen of the world of the arts, as at home in Rome or Paris as he is in New York. But in this latest installment, Rorem finds himself alone after the death of Jim Holmes, his companion of 32 years. Grief-stricken, he struggles to find his way in the world, while seeing his 80th birthday celebrated nationwide with concerts and programs befitting a celebrity. As he heals, Rorem starts to snap with his usual sharp observations, riffing on topics as diverse as defining opera for the New York Times and considering personalities as famous as Judy Collins and Gore Vidal. With his typical (some might even say brutal) candor, disarming wit, and self-knowledge, Rorem once again provides insightful reflections in elegant prose that demonstrates his ease in a form few writers dare to brave.
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(This is Ned Rorem's third book of essays covering a wide ...)
This is Ned Rorem's third book of essays covering a wide variety of topics in music. Chapters: 1. Journal one 2. Poetry of music 3. Against rock 4. Julius Katchen 1926-1969 5. Decors of sound 6. The avant garde as demode 7. The more things change 8. Sun 9. Ladies' music 10. Around Satie's Socrate 11. Bill Flanagan 1923-1969 12. Critics criticized 13. Twenty years after 14. Journal two
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Rorem, quite elderly now, has already gone down in history as top of the line American Art Song Composer. This diary is witty, full of wisdom, as well as sharp criticisms of everything from social to the artistic.
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(introduction by gavin lambert. "this edition limited to 3...)
introduction by gavin lambert. "this edition limited to 300 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies which are signed by (all 3) authors. this edition was set in bembo and printed on somerset paper. you hold in your hands copy "R". in publisher's cloth covered clamshell box.
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(Contents: Santa Fe · Opus 101 · Any other time · Sonnet ·...)
Contents: Santa Fe · Opus 101 · Any other time · Sonnet · Coming down the stairs · He never knew · El Musico · The Wintry-Mind · Water-Hyacinths · Moving Leaves · Yes I hear them · The Sowers.
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Rorem, Ned was born on October 23, 1923 in Richmond, Indiana, United States. Son of Clarence Rufus and Gladys (Miller) Rorem.
Student, Northwestern University, 1942. Student, Curtis Institute, Philadelphia, 1943. Bachelor, Juilliard School Music, 1946.
Master of Arts, Juilliard School Music, 1948. Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), Northwestern University, 1977. Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), Curtis Institute, 1982.
Slee professor, composer-in-residence Buffalo University, 1959-1961. Professor composition University Utah, 1965-1967, Curtis Institute, 1980—2004, Yale University, New Haven, since 1998, Manhattan School of Music, 1995—2000. Guest composer New Music New Haven Series School Music Yale University, 1998, visiting professor, 1998-1999.
Composer-in-residence Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, 1999.
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( Beginning with The Paris Diary in 1966 and continuing t...)
(Contents: Santa Fe · Opus 101 · Any other time · Sonnet ·...)
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(SATB Performance Version; First performed Jan. 22 1998 at...)
(A song cycle for mezzo soprano and piano)
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(216 Pages of Text...Inscribed By Rorem)
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(1st Limelight ed)
Member of American Academy of Arts and Letters (president since 2000), American Society of Composers, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, American Academy Arts & Letters 2000-2003, Society Friends.