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An Absolute Gift

Author : Ned Rorem
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 148042773X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book An Absolute Gift written by Ned Rorem and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificent collection of essays, opinions, and reflections on life, culture, art, love, and music—always lyrical, witty, and brazenly provocative—from one of the most acclaimed contemporary American composers Time magazine has called Ned Rorem “the world’s best composer of art songs.” But his genius does not end in the realm of classical music. Rorem has a rare gift for writing, as well, and the wide acclaim that has greeted his memoirs, essay collections, and published diaries attest to this fact. An Absolute Gift is a cornucopia of Roremisms—essays, reviews, and opinions on a vast array of fascinating subjects, from music to film to drama to sex. Here also are candid diary entries, displaying the frankness and remarkable insight for which Rorem is known. Whether he’s lambasting or celebrating the world’s great musical works and their creators (and, according to Stephen Sondheim, “He is one of the best writers about music that I have ever read”), offering intensely personal musings on death and love, or brilliantly dissecting the artist’s craft, Ned Rorem is always fascinating, always provocative, and enormously entertaining.

The Paris and New York Diaries of Ned Rorem, 1951-1961

Author : Ned Rorem
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Paris and New York Diaries of Ned Rorem, 1951-1961 written by Ned Rorem and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Other Entertainment

Author : Ned Rorem
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Other Entertainment written by Ned Rorem and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And in addition to the reviews, profiles, tributes, and even obituaries, there are dialogues with critic John Simon and with physician Lawrence Mass that center on homosexuality, as it obtains both in the arts and in general conversation.

A Ned Rorem Reader

Author : Ned Rorem
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300089848
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Ned Rorem Reader written by Ned Rorem and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ned Rorem, composer and writer, is both a gifted memoirist and one of our most acerbic cultural commentators. This anthology of his musings on music, people, and life surveys the full range of his literary achievement and reflects the evolution of his sensibilities. The first part of the book is devoted to writing of an autobiographical nature, including ruminations on being alone and on becoming a composer. The second part focuses on music and individuals from Bartók and Ravel to Edith Piaf and the Beatles. The final part consists of portraits and memorials of such figures as Martha Graham, Paul Bowles, Marc Blitzstein, Frank O'Hara, Allen Ginsberg, and Truman Capote. The book also includes a lengthy conversation on the art of the diary.

The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem, 1961–1972

Author : Ned Rorem
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480427721
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem, 1961–1972 written by Ned Rorem and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVThe esteemed American composer and unabashed diarist Ned Rorem provides a fascinating, brazenly intimate first-person account of his life and career during one of the most extraordinary decades of the twentieth century /divDIV Ned Rorem is often considered an American treasure, one of the greatest contemporary composers in the US. In 1966, he revealed another side of his remarkable talent when The Paris Diary was published, and a year later, The New York Diary, both to wide critical acclaim. In The Later Diaries,Rorem continues to explore his world and his music in intimate journal form, covering the years 1961 to 1972, one of his most artistically productive decades./divDIV /divDIVThe Ned Rorem revealed in The Later Diaries is somewhat more mature and worldly than the young artist of the earlier works, but no less candid or daring, as he reflects on his astonishing life, loves, friendships, and rivalries during an epoch of staggering, sometimes volatile change. Writing with intelligence, insight, and honesty, he recalls time spent with some of the most famous, and infamous, artists of the era—Philip Roth, Christopher Isherwood, Tallulah Bankhead, and Edward Albee, among others—openly exploring his sexuality and his art while offering fascinating, sometimes blistering, views on the art of his contemporaries./div/div

Facing the Night

Author : Ned Rorem
Publisher : Counterpoint LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Facing the Night written by Ned Rorem and published by Counterpoint LLC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Knowing When to Stop

Author : Ned Rorem
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480427756
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Knowing When to Stop written by Ned Rorem and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVA thrilling, poignant, and bold memoir of the early years and accomplishments—both musical and sexual—of renowned contemporary composer Ned Rorem/divDIV Ned Rorem, arguably the greatest composer of art songs that America has produced in more than a hundred years, is also revered as a diarist and essayist whose unexpurgated writings are at once enthralling, enlightening, and provocative. In Knowing When to Stop, one of the most creative American artists of our time offers readers a colorful narrative of his first twenty-seven years, expertly unraveling the intriguing conundrum of who he truly is and how he came to be that way./divDIV /divDIVAs the author himself writes, “A memoir is not a diary. Diaries are written in the heat of battle, memoirs in the repose of retrospect.” But careful thought and consideration have not dulled the sharp point of Rorem’s pen as he writes openly of his life and loves, his missteps and triumphs, and offers frank and fascinating portraits of the luminaries in his circle: Aaron Copland, Truman Capote, Jean Cocteau, Martha Graham, Igor Stravinsky, Billie Holliday, Paul Bowles, and Alfred C. Kinsey, to name a few. The result is an early life story that is riveting, moving, and intimate—a magnificent self-portrait of one of the great minds of this age. /div/div

A Ned Rorem Reader

Author : Ned Rorem
Publisher : Limelight Editions
ISBN 13 : 9780879109998
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book A Ned Rorem Reader written by Ned Rorem and published by Limelight Editions. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching his 80th year, Rorem -- Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, unrivalled practitioner of the American art song, shamelessly candid libertine, ambivalent grandfather figure of gay liberation, pithy epigrammatist -- has assembled an anthology of his writings that chronicles the postures and passions of a breed of 20th-century artist. Among the collection's new material is a barbed interview with the poet J D McClatchy and excerpts from Rorem's five volumes of splendid literary diaries, irreverent and canny commentary on musical matters and loving, if occasionally scathing, remembrances of rivals and confidants from Aaron Copeland to Truman Capote. Rorem proceeds with the studied elegance of a dandy, the bravado of a dyed-in-the-wool contrarian and the dialectical bent of a classicist. Despite Rorem's renowned flair for high-cultural gossip, and his delight in scandalising, his true subject is nostalgia for a lost self and the transitory compensations of art and sex. -- Mark Levine, New York Times Book Review.

The State of Music

Author : Virgil Thomson
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598534750
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The State of Music written by Virgil Thomson and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virgil Thomson had already established himself as one of the nation's leading composers when he published The State of Music (1939), the book that made his name as a writer and won him a fourteen-year stint as chief music reviewer at the New York Herald Tribune. This feisty, often hilarious polemic, presented here in the extensively revised edition of 1962, surveys the challenges confronting the American composer in a hide-bound world where performance and broadcast outlets are controlled by institutions shocked by the new and suspicious of homegrown talent. For Aaron Copland, The State of Music was not just “the most original book on music that America has produced,” but “the wittiest, the most provocative, the best written.”

Critical Affairs

Author : Ned Rorem
Publisher : New York : G. Braziller
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Critical Affairs written by Ned Rorem and published by New York : G. Braziller. This book was released on 1970 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dear Paul, Dear Ned

Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964039971
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Dear Paul, Dear Ned written by Paul Bowles and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Queer Composition of America's Sound

Author : Nadine Hubbs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520937953
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Queer Composition of America's Sound written by Nadine Hubbs and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-10-18 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this vibrant and pioneering book, Nadine Hubbs shows how a gifted group of Manhattan-based gay composers were pivotal in creating a distinctive "American sound" and in the process served as architects of modern American identity. Focusing on a talented circle that included Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Paul Bowles, David Diamond, and Ned Rorem, The Queer Composition of America's Sound homes in on the role of these artists' self-identification—especially with tonal music, French culture, and homosexuality—in the creation of a musical idiom that even today signifies "America" in commercials, movies, radio and television, and the concert hall.

The Nantucket Diary of Ned Rorem, 1973–1985

Author : Ned Rorem
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480427764
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Nantucket Diary of Ned Rorem, 1973–1985 written by Ned Rorem and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVThe acclaimed author of The Paris Diary, Pulitzer Prize–winning American composer Ned Rorem offers readers a mellow, thoughtful, and candid chronicle of his life, work, and contemporaries/divDIV One of our most revered contemporary musical artists—winner of the Pulitzer Prize and declared “the world’s best composer of art songs” by Time magazine—Ned Rorem writes that he is “a composer who writes, not a writer who composes.” Despite this claim, Rorem’s published diaries, memoirs, essay collections, and other nonfiction works have all received resounding acclaim for their lyricism, bold honesty, and insightful social commentary./divDIV /divDIVHis Nantucket Diary, covering the years 1973 through 1985, reveals a more mature and graceful Ned Rorem, a man who has experienced great loss and serious illness yet has lost none of his acute observational skills and keenly opinionated nature. His wit remains bracing and his candor refreshing as he offers sharp critiques on the state of modern classical music and its creators. His accounts of times shared with luminaries and legends, musical and otherwise (including Leonard Bernstein, Edward Albee, Virgil Thomson, and Stephen Sondheim) are consistently enthralling and delightful. The outspoken hedonist of The Paris Diary may be older and more subdued now, but his incisive observations and unique outlook on life, both personal and creative, remain an unforgettable reading experience./div/div

Elephant Company

Author : Vicki Croke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1400069335
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elephant Company written by Vicki Croke and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the onset of World War II, [Billy] Williams formed Elephant Company and was instrumental in defeating the Japanese in Burma and saving refugees, including on his own 'Hannibal Trek, ' [becoming] a media sensation during the war, telling reporters that the elephants did more for him than he was ever able to do for them"--

The Wedding Collection

Author : Richard Walters
Publisher : Vocal Library
ISBN 13 : 9781423412649
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book The Wedding Collection written by Richard Walters and published by Vocal Library. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Vocal Collection). This indispensable volume is a great resource full of vast variety, useful for any singer trying to please any bride or groom. The selections are in five musical styles: classical/traditional, Broadway, standards in custom arrangements, pop/rock classics in custom arrangements, and contemporary Christian. CLASSICAL TRADITIONAL: Alleluja (Mozart) (high voice only) * Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod) * Ave Maria (Schubert) * Bist du bei mir (Stozel) * Dank sei Dir, Herr (Ochs) * Entreat Me Not to Leave Thee (Gounod) * Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach) * Let the bright Seraphim (Handel, with trumpet part) (high voice only) * The Lord's Prayer (Malotte) * Mein glaubiges Herz (My Heart Ever Faithful) (Bach) * Now Thank We All Our God (arr. Walters) * Panis Angelicus (Franck) * Pur ti miro, pur ti godo (Monteverdi, duet from L'incoronazione di Poppea). BROADWAY: All Good Gifts (Godspell) * All I Ask of You (duet, The Phantom of the Opera) * And This Is My Beloved (Kismet) * The Greatest of These (Philemon) * More I Cannot Wish You (Guys and Dolls) * Some Enchanted Evening (South Pacific) * Someone like You (Jekyll & Hyde) * Sunrise, Sunset (Fiddler on the Roof) * Till There Was You (The Music Man) * Unexpected Song (Song & Dance). STANDARDS: All the Way * Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) * I Could Write a Book * Let It Be Me (Je T'appartiens) * The Promise (I'll Never Say Goodbye) * Starting Here, Starting Now * Time After Time * Walk Hand in Hand * The Way You Look Tonight * With a Song in My Heart. POP/ROCK CLASSICS: Annie's Song * Endless Love * Grow Old with Me * Here, There and Everywhere * I Will * In My Life * We've Only Just Begun * You Are So Beautiful * You Raise Me Up. CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN: How Beautiful * I Will Be Here * If You Could See What I See * Love of My Life * My Place Is with You * Parent's Prayer (Let Go of Two) * This Day * This Is the Day (A Wedding Song).

Other People's Letters

Author : Mina Kirstein Curtiss
Publisher : Helen Marx Books
ISBN 13 : 9781885586360
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Other People's Letters written by Mina Kirstein Curtiss and published by Helen Marx Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wonderfully spontaneous evocation of a glamorous Proustian world reads like a detective story.

Ned Rorem

Author : Arlys McDonald
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ned Rorem written by Arlys McDonald and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1989-06-26 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a composer and as an author, Ned Rorem occupies a position of considerable influence and importance in American music. His numerous musical works are performed frequently, and his critical writings offer unmatched insights into contemporary music. This bibliography will serve as an important resource for those seeking more information about this distinguished American composer and his works. The book is divided into four sections: a brief biography, a complete list of works and performances, a discography of commercially produced sound recordings, and a bibliography of writings by and about Ned Rorem. The list of works and performances includes Rorem's plays and books, works in preparation, and his musical compositions. The latter are classified by genre and arranged alphabetically within each category. Each entry provides as much information as possible about the date of composition and publication, publisher, duration, medium of performance, literary source, commission, dedication, and dates of the premiere and subsequent performances. A directory of publishers and their addresses is also provided. Citations in the discography are arranged by label and number and include contents, performers, date of issue, and album title. The bibliographical section includes annotations or brief quotations from the cited item. Three appendixes complete the work. The first provides an alphabetical listing of Rorem's compositions, including individual songs in cycles, distinctive subtitles, working titles, and titles of unpublished works. Appendix II is a chronological list of compositions and Appendix III provides a list of the literary sources for Rorem's works. This unique reference tool belongs in all music reference collections.