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2000. Ned Rorem and SS at the 92nd Street Y.

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Inscription inside a gifted copy of Ned Rorem’s book ‘Settling the Score’ to Phillip Wilcher, on the occasion of his 30th birthday.

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Inscription from composer Ned Rorem to composer Phillip Wilcher, August 1996.

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Inscribed photo, and handwritten letter from American composer Ned Rorem, to Australian composer Phillip Wilcher.

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Rorem / Martinů - Ingrid Dingfelder ‎– Ingrid Dingfelder Plays Flute Music (Book Of Hours / Trio) #composersrecordingsinc #cri 1977 US Composed By – #NedRorem #BohuslavMartinů Flute – #IngridDingfelder Harp – #MartineGeliot Flute – #IngridDingfelder Piano – #AnitaGordon Cello – #JeromeCarrington

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I miss you, my friend. An extraordinary artist. If you aren't familiar with his work, you should check him out. 💙 #brianasawa #gonetoosoon #countertenor @Regrann from @jamesjetsoften - "@sonymusicglobal Entertainment is pleased to announce another ten releases in its increasingly comprehensive series of #Classical Masters. These new box sets contain classic interpretations by some of the most celebrated #musicians of the 20th century. The American #BrianAsawa, who died tragically young in 2016, became one of the worlds foremost #countertenors before he was 30, acclaimed for the exceptional size, richness, agility and beauty of his #voice. In 1991 he was the first #countertenor ever to win the #MetropolitanOpera Auditions and soon he was singing with #opera companies all over the world. He was also a gifted recitalist and made a notable series of recordings for RCA/BMG. All reissued here, they range from Elizabethan #lute songs to a disc of songs by #NedRorem and include excerpts from the complete recording of #Handel's opera #Serse conducted by #NicholasMcGegan, in which @bbcmusicmag singled out for praise Brian Asawa's luscious #legato in the role of #Arsamene." 🗣✨🎶 A casual look though #applemusic streaming on my #iPhone resulted in discovering this beautiful 5-disc reissue of work by dear friend and client Brian (released April 28, 2017). For me, it's simultaneously wonderful and sad. Thrilled #Sony has recognized his voice and artistry, both are forever. JM _____________ #medtner #fauré #scarlatti #nedrorem #johndowland @naxosusa #chambermusic #sirnevillemarriner #classicalmusic #classicalvoice #legend #artist @asmforchestra

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Meet our composers: Ned Rorem (b. 1923) "I'm willing to talk about gay people as a group if it helps the situation. I don't think homosexuality is a very interesting subject, except politically, just as heterosexuality is not a very interesting subject. As well you know, homosexuals are just as boring as heterosexuals. Homosexuality is interesting only insofar as homosexuals are a persecuted minority. (Of course, that's pretty interesting.)" - Ned Rorem, as interviewed by Lawrence D. Mass, Queering the Pitch (1994) 

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ned Rorem is an American composer and diarist, best known and most praised for his song settings. Outspoken, talented, and drop-dead gorgeous, Rorem has gotten himself into some mischief over the years! Through it all, he's written many charming and elegant musical works, and some very revealing memoirs.

In 1966 he published The Paris Diary of Ned Rorem, which, with his later diaries, has brought him some notoriety, as he is honest about his and others' sexuality, describing his relationships with Leonard Bernstein, Noël Coward, Samuel Barber, and Virgil Thomson, and outing several others, though he mentioned regretting these outings in his later writings and interviews. Rorem has written extensively about music as well. These essays are collected in anthologies such as Setting the Tone, Music From the Inside Out, and Music and People. His prose is much admired, not least for its barbed observations about such prominent musicians as Pierre Boulez. Rorem has composed in a chromatic tonal idiom throughout his career, and he is not hesitant to attack the orthodoxies of the avant-garde.

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The New York Diary by #NedRorem. The follow-up to the composer’s Paris Diaries sees him returning to New York in 1955, with occasional forays elsewhere. Though it is absolutely of its time, and Rorem’s alternately mannered and bohemian milieu (he lived for a bit in the Chelsea Hotel, shared encounters and sometimes intimacies with the likes of Leonard Bernstein, James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Jean Cocteau, and Billie Holiday just to name a few), the diaries strike one as an intimate, quotidian record of artistic life that is still absolutely contemporary and relevant. It seems we New Yorkers have always enjoyed a healthy bit of narcissistic self-loathing topped with egotism, and are perennially concerned with our alcohol intake and slutty impulses. Rorem is a rewarding writer, alternately pithy, poetic, bitchy, and erudite - the quoted epigraphs introducing each section are worth the price of admission alone. The entries are undated, and often brief, lending the proceedings an air of a prose poem, and making the book a pleasure to dip into at one’s leisure. #princelibrary #memoir #autobiography #music #newyorkcity #1950s #1960s #LGBT #lit