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COPYRIGHT 2002 Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc.
[] Farley; Rorem, piano. Texts. Naxos 8.559084
Ned Rorem, born 1923 in Indiana, is known to many (including OPERA NEWS readers) as an author of articles and books. His approach to songwriting differs little from his prose style. Both are witty, discriminating, conceived with skill and a conscious sense of manner, set within a wide cultural frame of reference. There's a chatty but reserved familiarity that seems confidential but also rather cool. In music as in prose, he's fond of the polished epigram. His songs, like...
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