The Later Diaries Of Ned Rorem: 1961-1972
By (Author) Ned Rorem
Hachette Books
Da Capo Press Inc
13th October 2000
13th October 2000
United States
General
Non Fiction
Autobiography: arts and entertainment
Composers and songwriters
780.92
Paperback
456
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
The intimate chronicle of one of our leading composers and writers.. 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."
Ned Rorem has created a body of work that includes four symphonies, four piano concertos, nine operas, and fourteen books. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his orchestral suite Air Music. He divides his time between New York City and Nantucket.