Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem (born October 23, 1923) is an American composer and diarist, best known and most praised for his song settings. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976.
Life
Rorem was born in Richmond, Indiana and received his early education in Chicago at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, the American Conservatory of Music and then Northwestern University. Later, Rorem moved on to the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and finally the Juilliard School in New York City. Rorem was raised as a Quaker and makes reference to this in interviews in relation to his piece based on Quaker texts, A Quaker Reader.
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 (Aldrich and Wotherspoon, eds., 2001). 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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ALBUMS
- Piano Album I / Six Friends released: 2013
- Piano Concerto No. 2 / Cello Concerto (Royal Scottish National Orchestra feat. Conductor: José Serebrier, piano: Simon Mulligan, cello: Wen-Sinn Yang) released: 2007
- The Three Piano Sonatas (feat. piano: Thomas Lanners) released: 2007
- The End of Summer / Book of Hours / Bright Music released: 2003
- Three Symphonies released: 2003
- Songs of Ned Rorem released: 2000
- Philip Glass / Ned Rorem: Violin Concerto / Leonard Bernstein: Serenade released: 1999
- Songs of Ned Rorem (piano: Ned Rorem) released: 1993
- Winter Pages, Bright Music (Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival) released: 1992
- Spring Music released:
- Ned Rorem (The Louisville Orchestra feat. conductor: Jorge Mester conductor: Robert Whitney) released:
Piano Album I / Six Friends
Released 2013- Piano Album I: Song Without Words
- Piano Album I: Carol - Pastiche
- Piano Album I: Serenade for Two Paws
- Piano Album I: 19 Measures for Jim
- Piano Album I: Golden Notes on Nearing Fifty
- Piano Album I: Another Little Song Without Words
- Piano Album I: This Serpentine Etude
- Piano Album I: For a Perfect Friend
- Piano Album I: Marriage Measures
- Piano Album I: Snapshot of Jack
- Piano Album I: For Jim
- Piano Album I: A Little Waltz for Jim at Fifty-Five
- Piano Album I: A Melody for Shirley
- Piano Album I: A Talisman for Jim on Christmas Eve
- Piano Album I: On His Birthday
- Piano Album I: Ah Jim…
- Piano Album I: A Berceuse for Jim at Christmas
- Piano Album I: A Christmas Card for Mary and Rosemary
- Piano Album I: For A Perfect Sister
- Piano Album I: A Sarabande for the Only Jim in the World
- Piano Album I: 60 Notes for Judy
- Piano Album I: 77 Notes for Rosemary
- Piano Album I: 99 Notes for the Millennium
- Piano Album I: For Ben
- Piano Album I: Waiting to Get Well
- Piano Album I: 1 + 1 = 3
- Piano Album I: 40 Chords for Mark on April First
- 6 Friends: For Marian
- 6 Friends: For Barbara
- 6 Friends: For Rosemary
- 6 Friends: For Mary
- 6 Friends: For Don
- 6 Friends: 75 Notes for Jerry
Piano Concerto No. 2 / Cello Concerto (Royal Scottish National Orchestra feat. Conductor: José Serebrier, piano: Simon Mulligan, cello: Wen-Sinn Yang)
Released 2007- Piano Concerto No. 2: I. Somber and Steady
- Piano Concerto No. 2: II. Quiet and Sad
- Piano Concerto No. 2: III. Real Fast!
- Cello Concerto: I. Curtain Raise
- Cello Concerto: II. There and Back
- Cello Concerto: III. Three Queries, One Response
- Cello Concerto: IV. Competitive Chaos
- Cello Concerto: V. A Single Tone, A Dozen Implications
- Cello Concerto: VI. One Coin, Two Sides
- Cello Concerto: VII. Valse Rappelée
- Cello Concerto: VIII. Adrift
The Three Piano Sonatas (feat. piano: Thomas Lanners)
Released 2007- Sonata for Piano no. 2: I. Overture. Allegretto
- Sonata for Piano no. 2: II. Tarantella. Scherzando
- Sonata for Piano no. 2: III. Nocturne. Moderato
- Sonata for Piano no. 2: IV. Toccata
- Sonata for Piano no. 3: I. Quarter-note = 144
- Sonata for Piano no. 3: II. Slow
- Sonata for Piano no. 3: III. Scherzando
- Sonata for Piano no. 3: IV. Molto allegro
- Sonata for Piano no. 1: I. Half-note = 72
- Sonata for Piano no. 1: II. Adagio
- Sonata for Piano no. 1: III. Toccata. Clear, fast, and hard
The End of Summer / Book of Hours / Bright Music
Released 2003- End of Summer: Capriccio
- End of Summer: Fantasy
- End of Summer: Mazurka
- Book of Hours: Matins (Nocturne)
- Book of Hours: Lauds (Sunrise)
- Book of Hours: Prime (6am)
- Book of Hours: Terce (Mid-Morning)
- Book of Hours: Sext (Noon)
- Book of Hours: None (Mid-Afternoon)
- Book of Hours: Vespers (Evensong)
- Book of Hours: Compline (Nightfall)
- Bright Music: Fandango
- Bright Music: Pierrot
- Bright Music: Dance-Song-Dance
- Bright Music: Another Dream
- Bright Music: Chopin
Three Symphonies
Released 2003- Symphony no. 3: I. Passacaglia
- Symphony no. 3: II. Allegro molto vivace
- Symphony no. 3: III. Largo
- Symphony no. 3: IV. Andante
- Symphony no. 3: V. Allegro molto
- Symphony no. 1: I. Maestoso
- Symphony no. 1: II. Andantino
- Symphony no. 1: III. Largo
- Symphony no. 1: IV. Allegro
- Symphony no. 2: I. Broad, moderate
- Symphony no. 2: II. Tranquillo
- Symphony no. 2: III. Allegro
Songs of Ned Rorem
Released 2000- Sonnet (Santa Fe Songs, no. 4)
- Clouds
- Early in the Morning
- The Serpent
- Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
- Opus 101 (Santa Fe Songs, no. 2)
- I Strolled Across an Open Field
- To a Young Girl
- Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
- Ode
- For Poulenc
- Little elegy
- Alleluia
- Look Down, Fair Moon
- O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
- I will always love you
- The Tulip Tree
- The Wintry Mind (Santa Fe Songs, no. 8)
- I am Rose
- The Lordly Hudson
- O Do Not Love Too Long
- Far - Far - Away
- For Susan
- A Journey
- Sometimes With One I Love
- Love
- Orchids
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- Do I love you more than a day?
- Ferry Me Across the Water
- The Sowers (Santa Fe Songs, no. 12)
- That Shadow, My Likeness
Philip Glass / Ned Rorem: Violin Concerto / Leonard Bernstein: Serenade
Released 1999- Violin Concerto: I. Quarter Note = 104 - Quarter Note = 120
- Violin Concerto: II. Quarter Note = ca. 108
- Violin Concerto: III. Quarter Note = ca. 150 - Coda: Poco meno - Quarter Note = 104
- Violin Concerto: I. Twilight: Free and Spacious - Attacca:
- Violin Concerto: II. Toccata-Chaconne: Very Fast
- Violin Concerto: III. Romance Without Words: Hardly Moving
- Violin Concerto: IV. Midnight: Slow
- Violin Concerto: V. Toccata-Rondo: Very Fast
- Violin Concerto: VI. Dawn: Wistful
- Serenade after Plato's "Symposium": I. Phaedrus - Pausanias: Lento - Allegro marcato
- Serenade after Plato's "Symposium": II. Aristophanes: Allegretto
- Serenade after Plato's "Symposium": III. Eryximachus: Presto
- Serenade after Plato's "Symposium": IV. Agathon: Adagio
- Serenade after Plato's "Symposium": V. Socrates - Alcibiades: Molto tenuto - Allegro molto vivace
Songs of Ned Rorem (piano: Ned Rorem)
Released 1993- Nantucket Song No. 1: From Whence Cometh Song
- Nantucket Song No. 2: The Dance
- Nantucket Song No. 3: Nantucket
- Nantucket Song No. 4: Go, Lovely Rose
- Nantucket Song No. 5: Up-Hill
- Nantucket Song No. 6: Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel
- Nantucket Song No. 7: Fear of Death
- Nantucket Song No. 8: Thoughts of a Young Girl
- Nantucket Song No. 9: Ferry Me Across the Water
- Nantucket Song No. 10: The Dancer
- Some Trees, No. 1: Some Trees
- Some Trees, No. 3: The Grapevine
- Some Trees, No. 4: Our Youth
- Six Songs, No. 1: Little Elegy
- Six Songs, No. 2: Night Crow
- Six Songs, No. 3: The Tulip Tree
- Six Songs, No. 4: Look Down, Fair Moon
- Six Songs, No. 5: What Sparks and Wiry Cries
- Six Songs, No. 6: For Poulenc
- Women's Voices, No. 1: Let Not Charitable Hope
- Women's Voices, No. 2: A Birthday
- Women's Voices, No. 3: To My Dear and Loving Husband
- Women's Voices, No. 4: To the Ladies
- Women's Voices, No. 5: If Ever Hapless Woman Had a Cause
- Women's Voices, No. 6: We Never Said Farewell
- Women's Voices, No. 7: The Stranger
- Women's Voices, No. 8: What Inn Is This?
- Women's Voices, No. 9: Defiled Is My Name
- Women's Voices, No. 10 Electrocution
- Women's Voices, No. 11: Smile, Death
Winter Pages, Bright Music (Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival)
Released 1992- Winter Pages: A Mirror
- Winter Pages: The sun that brief December day
- Winter Pages: Around the house the flakes fly faster
- Winter Pages: Paris then
- Winter Pages: Dorchester Avenue
- Winter Pages: Hestitations
- Winter Pages: Urged by earnest violins
- Winter Pages: Moments fly by like a snowstorm
- Winter Pages: Rue des Saints-Pères
- Winter Pages: Valse Oubilée
- Winter Pages: Stone Snowballs
- Winter Pages: Still Life
- Bright Music: Fandango
- Bright Music: Pierrot
- Bright Music: Dance- Song-Dance
- Bright Music: Another Dream
- Bright Music: Chopin
Ned Rorem (The Louisville Orchestra feat. conductor: Jorge Mester conductor: Robert Whitney)
- Eleven Studies for Eleven Players: I. Prelude
- Eleven Studies for Eleven Players: II. Allegretto
- Eleven Studies for Eleven Players: III. Bird Call
- Eleven Studies for Eleven Players: IV. The Diary
- Eleven Studies for Eleven Players: V. Contest
- Eleven Studies for Eleven Players: VI. Invention for Battery
- Eleven Studies for Eleven Players: VII. In Memory of My Feelings
- Eleven Studies for Eleven Players: VIII. Fugato
- Eleven Studies for Eleven Players: IX. Elegy
- Eleven Studies for Eleven Players: X. Presto
- Eleven Studies for Eleven Players: XI. Epilogue
- Piano Concerto in Six Movements: I. Strands
- Piano Concerto in Six Movements: II. Fives
- Piano Concerto in Six Movements: III. Whispers
- Piano Concerto in Six Movements: IV. Sighs
- Piano Concerto in Six Movements: V. Lava
- Piano Concerto in Six Movements: VI. Sparks
PLAYLIST TIME:
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by Budgie
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by A Few Good Men
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by The Distillers
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by Collie Buddz
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by Don Carlos
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by Babyface
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by Distillers
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by Dawn Landes
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by Stevie B
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by Blackfoot
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by Sweet Comfort Band
Young Girl
by: BudgieYoung girl so naive
Young and hungry, seventeen
Sweet thing, peaches and cream
Sells her body, lives in a dream
She found love, she found it in his eyes
Drifts about so all she does is cry
Young girl learning fast,
She's so different she has no past
Nightlife takes it's toll on the sweet thing
She's growing old
She found love, she found it in his arms
Drifts about, he's always telling lies
Young girl tired of rejection
Young girl needing some affection
Young girl realizes her body,
Is her ticket to life
Sweet thing she walks out
So she tells him and starts to shout
She found love, she found it in his eyes
He's got a gun now she's gonna die
Young girl, tired of rejection
Young girl, needing some affection
Young girl, tired of rejection
Young girl, needing some affection