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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 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 ...
Our Town is a three-act play written by American playwright Thornton Wilder in 1938. Described by Edward Albee as "the greatest American play ever written", [ 1 ] it presents the fictional American town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens.
The revival also stars Zoey Deutch, Katie Holmes, Ephraim Sykes, and more.
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]
His scores for Of Mice and Men (1939), Our Town (1940), and The North Star (1943) all received Academy Award nominations, while The Heiress won Best Music in 1950. [202] In 1961, Aaron Copland was awarded the Edward MacDowell Medal by the MacDowell Colony where he was a fellow eight times (1925, 1928, 1935, 1938, 1946, 1950, 1952, 1956.) [203]
In the spring of 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the opera program did outdoor pop-up concerts in surrounding communities, performing duets and arias (solos) from composers such as Mozart and ...
Our Town, adaptation of the play starring Paul Newman; Our Town, 1955 TV adaptation on Producers' Showcase. Our Town, adaptation by composer Ned Rorem; Our Town, South Korean film "Our Town" (The X-Files), episode from season two "Our Town" (The Vampire Diaries), an episode of the television series