Ned Rorem Book order
Ned Rorem is an American composer and diarist, celebrated primarily for his song settings. His compositions employ a chromatic tonal idiom, and his literary works, particularly his diaries, are prized for their insightful and candid observations on the musical world and its figures. Rorem often challenges avant-garde orthodoxies, forging a distinctive literary and musical voice.
- 2022
- 2004
Water Music Full SC
- 64 pages
- 3 hours of reading
- 1998
The Paris Diary & The New York Diary 1951-1961
- 440 pages
- 16 hours of reading
These diaries by Ned Rorem, written in Paris and New York, marked the beginnings of Gay Liberation, not because he made a special issue of his sexuality, but because he did not. Rather, he wrote of his affairs frankly and unashamedly.
