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Ned Miller Rorem [1] was born in Richmond, Indiana, US on October 23, 1923. [2] Born to parents of Norwegian descent, he was their second child after his sister Rosemary. [3] [4] [n 1] His father Clarence Rufus Rorem was a medical economist at Earlham College whose work later inspired the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, while his mother Gladys Miller Rorem was active in antiwar movements ...
Ned Rorem (1923–2022) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. Though best known for his many songs, his compositions also include operas, concertante, piano music as well as choral, chamber and orchestral works. [1]
Our Town is a three-act opera by composer Ned Rorem and librettist J. D. McClatchy.It is the first opera to be adapted from Thornton Wilder's 1938 play of the same name.The opera was commissioned by Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Opera Boston, the Aspen Music Festival and School, North Carolina School of the Arts, Lake George Opera in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and Festival Opera in ...
Ned Rorem, the prolific Pulitzer- and Grammy-winning musician known for his vast output of compositions and for his barbed and sometimes scandalous prose, died Friday at 99. The news was confirmed ...
Miss Julie is an opera by Ned Rorem to an English libretto by Kenward Elmslie, based on the play, Miss Julie (1888), by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. It explores the subject of the intersection of social class and illicit sexual relations in late 19th-century Sweden.
Air Music is a set of ten variations for orchestra by the American composer Ned Rorem. The work was completed in 1974 and was first performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra on December 5, 1975. The piece won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Music. [1] [2] [3]
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Rorem, the composer, in 1968. Composer Ned Rorem put Goodman's poem "The Lordly Hudson" to art song. [18] Rorem first met Goodman in 1938 at a weekly poetry reading in Chicago, when Rorem was an early teenager. Goodman became Rorem's foremost social and poetic influence, [5] his "Manhattan Goethe". [19]