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THE GENTLEMAN COMPOSER.(Ned Rorem)
Ned Rorem will not go away. For decades, he has been an elegant anomaly among American composers, adhering to an austerely lyrical Franco-American style that went out of fashion sometime during the Eisenhower Administration. He came of age in the nineteen-forties, when a young composer could go to Paris, dash off a bundle of unaffectedly beautiful songs, and get written up in the weeklies alongside Norman Mailer and Montgomery Clift. Rorem was among the last American artists to pull off a plausible Parisian exile, and when he came back, in 1957, he found that composers were being hailed not for the excellence of their craft but for the extravagance of their theories. Time ...
- Ned Rorem and the Music of Time
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Michael Dirda October 25, 1987 700+ words
THE NANTUCKET DIARY OF NED ROREM, 1973-1985 By Ned Rorem North Point. 634 pp. $30 EVEN IF composer Ned Rorem were to write a thousand songs, each more beautiful...
- Essays of a memorialized life.(A Ned Rorem Reader)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide Nickels, Thom November 1, 2002 700+ words
A Ned Rorem Reader Yale University Press 287 pages, $29.95 NED ROREM is a composer of serious music who also...starting in 1966 with The Paris Diary of Ned Rorem. He's also known for his essays, which...
- The essential Ned Rorem.
- Newspaper article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) September 22, 2003 700+ words
Byline: Lawrence A. Johnson Ned Rorem is as renowned for his literary endeavors...Songs." Carole Farley, soprano; Ned Rorem, pianist (Naxos). It is in the...successor, "The New York Diary." "A Ned Rorem Reader" (Yale University Press...
- As he nears 80, composer Ned Rorem retains his razor edge.
- Newspaper article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) September 22, 2003 700+ words
...his vocal and chamber music. But Ned Rorem ultimately decided against making...gifted and distinctive composers, Ned Rorem has earned the right to be curmudgeonly...which events he attends. At age 79, Rorem's bleak pessimism about the future...
- Celebrating a rebel; Ned Rorem.
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) October 4, 2003 700+ words
Ned Rorem in 1978 Protest against the "serial killers" IN 1989, Ned Rorem wrote, "Nobody sings my songs anymore...fame as a writer too. "The Paris Diary of Ned Rorem", published in 1966, described his adventures...
- NED ROREM by Philip Hoare
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Philip Hoare April 22, 1995 700+ words
...In celebration of his 70th year, Ned Rorem recently published the latest volume...self-revelation. The paradoxes in Rorem's life are acute. Raised in suburban...library edition of The Paris Diary of Ned Rorem in a secondhand bookshop in Hampshire...
- Ned Rorem, composer, diarist, at eighty.(Artist's Profile)
- Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide Whittington, Lewis January 1, 2004 700+ words
...beginning how it's going to end." Ned Rorem said of his first opera, Miss Julie...it," he added. In the 1940's, Rorem himself had been a student at the...Roremania," all in celebration of Rorem's eightieth birthday. On this warm...
- Making our town sing: out composer Ned Rorem and renowned poet J.D. McClatchy...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Dalton, Joseph March 14, 2006 700+ words
After gay composer Ned Rorem turned 80 back in 2003, he decided to...t know what to do in a bar," says Rorem, who nevertheless went looking for distraction...and now, nearly three years later, Rorem has a steady boyfriend. (James Holmes...
