Ned Rorem

Ned Rorem
Nacimiento	23 de octubre de 1923 Richmond, Indiana,
Nacionalidad	Estados Unidos
Ocupación	compositor y escritor

Ned Rorem (23 de octubre de 1923; Richmond, Indiana, Estados Unidos) es un laureado compositor y escritor estadounidense.

Biografía

Recibió su educación en la University of Chicago, en el American Conservatory y el Instituto Curtis de Filadelfia perfeccionándose en la Juilliard School de New York.

Vivió en Marruecos y en París (1949-57).

Declarado homosexual, en 1969 publicó sus diarios (Paris Diary) donde describió sus relaciones con Leonard Bernstein, Noel Coward, Samuel Barber, y Virgil Thomson.

Como ensayista a escrito varios libros "Setting the Tone", "Music From the Inside Out", y "Music and People".

Operas

• A Childhood Miracle (1951)
• The Robbers (1956)
• 'Miss Julie (1965)
• Hearing (1966-76)
• Bertha (1968)
• The Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters (1968)
• Fables (1971)
• Our Town (2005)

Música orquestal

• Piano Concerto No. 1 (1948)
• From an Unknown Past (1950)
• Symphony No. 1 (1950)
• Piano Concerto No. 2 (1951)
• Design (1953)
• Poemes pour la paix (1953/56)
• Symphony No. 2 (1956)
• Sinfonia (1957)
• Eagles (1958)
• Pilgrims (1958)
• Symphony No. 3 (1958)
• Ideas (1961)
• Lions (A Dream) (1963)
• Sun (1966)
• Water Music (1966)
• Piano Concerto No. 3 (1969)
• Air Music (1974)
• Assembly and Fall (1975)
• A Quaker Reader (1976/88)
• Sunday Morning (1977)
• Remembering Tommy (1979)
• After Long Silence (1982)
• Violin Concerto (1984)
• Organ Concerto (1985)
• String Symphony (1985)
• Frolic (1986)
• The Schuyler Songs (1987),
• Fantasy and Polka (1989)
• Swords and Plowshares (1990)
• Piano Concerto No. 4 (1991)
• Concerto for English Horn (1991-92)
• Triptych (1992),
• More Than A Day (1995)
• Waiting (1996)
• Double Concerto (1998),
• Cello Concerto (2002),
• Flute Concerto (2002)
• Mallet Concerto (2003)
• Eleven Songs for Susan (2007)
• Songs Old and New (2008)

Música de cámara

• Concertino de Camera (1946)
• Mountain Song (1948)
• Dance Suite (1949), for two pianos
• Sicilienne (1950), for two pianos
• Violin Sonata (1954), for violin & piano
• Eleven Studies for Eleven Players (1959-60),
• Trio (1960), for flute, cello & piano
• Lovers (1964),
• Day Music (1971),
• Night Music (1972),
• Solemn Prelude (1973),
• Book of Hours (1975),
• Romeo and Juliet (1977),
• Three Slow Pieces (1978),
• Whales, Weep Not! (1978),
• Winter Pages (1981),
• Picnic on the Marne (1983),
• Dances (1984), for cello & piano
• Septet Scenes from Childhood (1984-85),
• The End of Summer (1985)
• Bright Music (1987)
• Fanfare and Flourish (1988)
• Diversions (1990), for brass quintet
• Spring Music (1990), for piano trio
• String Quartet No. 3 (1991)
• Songs of Sadness (1994),
• String Quartet No. 4 (1994)
• Six Variations (1995), for two pianos - four hands
• Autumn Music (1996-97), for violin & piano
• An Oboe Book (1999), for oboe & piano
• Cries and Whispers (2000), for trumpet & piano
• Nine Episodes for Four Players (2001), for clarinet, violin, cello & piano
• United States - Seven Viewpoints (2001), for string quartet
• Pas de Trois (2002), for oboe, violin & piano
• The Unquestioned Answer (2002), for flute, two violins, cello & piano
• Four Colours (2003), for clarinet & piano
• Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (2004), for piano quartet
• Four Prayers (2006), for flute & piano
• Nocturne (2007), for double bass & piano
• A Little Fantasy (2008), for cello & piano

Vocal

• Two Poems of Edith Sitwell (1948),
• Requiem (1948), for voice & piano
• From an Unknown Past (1950), for voice & piano/orchestra
• Cycle of Holy Songs (1951), for voice & piano
• Flight for Heaven (1952),
• Four Dialogues (1953-54),
• Three Poems for Demetrios Capetanakis (1954), for voice & piano
• Poems pour la paix (1953/56), for medium voice & strings
• Five Poems of Walt Whitman (1957), for voice & piano
• Two Poems of Theodore Roethke (1959) for voice & piano
• King Midas (1961), cantata for voice(s) & piano
• Four Poems of Tennyson (1963), for voice & piano
• Poems of Love and the Rain (1963),
• Sun (1966), for high voice & orchestra
• Some Trees (1968), for soprano, mezzo-soprano, bass-baritone & piano
• War Scenes (1969), for medium-low voice & piano
• Gloria (1970), for two solo voices & piano
• Ariel (1971),
• Last Poems of Wallace Stevens (1971-72),
• Serenade on Five English Poems (1975),
• Women's Voices (1975-76), for soprano & piano
• Santa Fe Songs (1980), for baritone, string trio & piano
• After Long Silence (1982),
• Three Calamus Poems (1982), for baritone & piano
• The Schuyler Songs (1987), for soprano & orchestra
• The Auden Poems (1989), for tenor & piano trio
• Swords and Plowshares (1990), for solo voices & orchestra
• My Sad Captains (1995), for soprano, alto, tenor, bass & piano
• Evidence of Things Not Seen (1997), thirty-six songs for soprano, alto, tenor, baritone & piano
• Another Sleep (2000),
• Aftermath (2001-02),
• Sound the Flute (2004), for high voice, recorder & piano
• Eleven Songs for Susan (2007), for mezzo-soprano & chamber orchestra
• Three Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (2007), for voice & piano
• Songs Old and New (2008), for soprano & orchestra
• Four Sonnets of Shakespeare (2008), for tenor & piano

Canciones

• Alleluia (1946)
• Spring and Fall (1946)
• Spring (1947)
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1947)
• The Lordly Hudson (1947)
• Echo's Song (1948)
• Little Elegy (1949)
• Rain in Spring (1949)
• Silver Swan (1949)
• The Sleeping Palace (1949)
• What If Some Little Pain (1949)
• Julia's Clothes (1950)
• Lullaby of the Woman of the Mountain (1950)
• To the Willow Tree (1950)
• Love in a Life (1951)
• O Do Not Love Too Long (1951)
• The Call (1951)
• The Nightingale (1951)
• To a Young Girl (1951)
• A Christmas Carol (1952)
• Clouds (1953)
• Cradle Song (1953)
• For Susan (1953)
• In a Gondola (1953)
• Love (1953)
• Ode (1953)
• Pippa's Song (1953)
• Sally's Smile (1953)
• Song for a Girl (1953)
• The Tulip Tree (1953)
• The Midnight Sun (1953)
• Early in the Morning (1954)
• Youth, Day, Old Age and Night (1954)
• I Am Rose (1955)
• I Will Always Love You (1955)
• See How They Love Me (1956)
• What Sparks and Wiry Cries (1956)
• Conversation (1957)
• Gliding O'er All (1957)
• Gods (1957)
• Look Down, Fair Moon (1957)
• O You to Whom I Often and Silently Come (1957)
• Reconciliation (1957)
• Sometimes With One I Love (1957)
• Such Beauty as Hurts to Behold (1957)
• To You (1957)
• Visits to St. Elizabeth's (1957)
• I Strolled Across an Open Field (1959)
• Memory (1959)
• My Papa's Waltz (1959)
• Night Crow (1959)
• Orchids (1959)
• Root Cellar (1959)
• Snake (1959)
• The Waking (1959)
• Do I love you more than a day? (1962)
• Ask Me No More (1963)
• Far-Far-Away (1963)
• For Poulenc (1963)
• Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (1963)
• The Sleeping Palace (1963)
• That Shadow, My Likeness (1963)
• To You (1970)
• Trickle Drops (1970)
• The Serpent (1972)
• We Never Said Farewell (1975-76)
• A Journey (1976)
• Ferry me across the water (1978)
• From When Cometh Song? (1978)
• The Dance (1978)
• Nantucket (1978-79)
• Go, Lovely Rose (1979)
• The Dancer (1979)
• Up-Hill (1979)
• Back to Life (1980)
• Sonnet (1980)
• The Sowers (1980)
• The Wintry Mind (1980)
• Let's Take a Walk (1981)
• Anna la Bonne (1989)
• Are You the New Person? (1989)
• Full of Life Now (1989)
• I Will Always Love You (1990)
• A Dream of Nightingales (1992)
• Their Lonely Betters (1992)
• Somewhere... (1994)
• Three Women (1994)
• Remembrance of Things Past (1998)
• Chromatic Fantasy (2001)
• He Will Not Hear (2001)
• I Never Knew (2001)
• The End (2003)
• While Sodom Was Occupied (2004)
• The Stars Have Not Dealt (2007)
• A Poison Tree (2007)
• Death and the Young Man (2007)
• Wild Nights (2007)

Coral

• The Seventieth Psalm (1943), for S.A.T.B. choir & wind ensemble
• A Sermon on Miracles (1947), for soprano solo, unison choir & strings
• Four Madrigals (1947), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
• Three Incantations from a Marionette Tale (1948), for unison choir & piano
• From an Unknown Past (1950), for S.A.T.B. choir & orchestra
• I Feel Death... (1953), for three-part a cappella male choir
• The Poets' Requiem (1954-55), soprano solo, S.A.T.B. choir & orchestra
• All Glorious God (1955), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
• Sing, My Soul, His Wondrous Love (1955), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
• Miracles of Christmas (1959), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ
• Prayers and Responses (1960), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
• Virelai (1961), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
• Two Psalms and a Proverb (1962), for S.A.T.B. choir & string quartet
• Lift up your Heads (The Ascension) (1963), for S.A.T.B. choir, eight wind, nine brass & timpani
• Laudemus Tempus Actum (1964), for S.A.T.B. choir & orchestra
• Letters from Paris (1966), for S.A.T.B. choir & orchestra
• Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (1966), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
• Proper for the Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit (1966), for unison choir & organ
• Truth in the Night Season (1966), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ
• He Shall Rule from Sea to Sea (1967), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ
• Praises for the Nativity (1970), for soprano, alto, tenor & bass soli, S.A.T.B. choir & organ
• Canticle of the Lamb (1971), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
• Canticles: Sets 1 & 2 (1971-72), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
• Four Hymns (1973), for S.A.T.B. choir & keyboard
• In Time of Pestilence (1973), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
• Little Prayers (1973), for soprano & baritone soli, S.A.T.B. choir & orchestra
• Missa Brevis (1973), for soprano, alto, tenor & bass soli, & S.A.T.B. choir
• Prayer to Jesus (1973), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
• Three Motets (1973), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ
• Three Prayers (1973), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
• Surge Illuminare (1977), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ
• Three Choruses for Christmas (1978), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
• Give All to Love (1981), for two-part choir & piano
• Little Lamb, Who Made Thee? (1982), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ
• Praise the Lord, O My Soul (1982), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ
• An American Oratorio (1983), for tenor solo, S.A.T.B. choir & orchestra
• Mercy and Truth Are Met (1983), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ
• Whitman Cantata (1983), for S.A.T.B. choir, brass ensemble & timpani
• Pilgrim Strangers (1984), for six a cappella male voices
• Before the Morning Star (1986), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
• Homer (1986), for S.A.T.B. choir & ensemble
• Seven Motets for the Church Year (1986), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
• Three Poems of Baudelaire (1986), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
• Te Deum (1986-87), for S.A.T.B. choir, two trumpets, two trombones & organ
• Five Armenian Love Songs (1987), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
• The Death of Moses (1987), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ
• What is Pink? (1987), for treble choir & piano
• Goodbye My Fancy (1988), for alto & baritone soli, S.A.T.B. choir & orchestra
• Lead Kindly Light (1988), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
• Breathe On Me (1989), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
• Love Alone (1989), for male-voice choir & piano duet
• Christ is made the sure foundation (1992), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ
• Festival Alleluia (1992), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
• O God, My Heart is Ready (1992), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ
• Spirit Divine (1992), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ
• Present Laughter (1993), for S.A.T.B. choir, brass quintet & piano
• How Lovely is your Dwelling Place (1994), for S.A.T.B. choir & piano/organ
• Exaltabo Te, Domine (1995), for S.A.T.B. choir & keyboard
• Four Introits (1999), for S.A.T.B. choir & keyboard
• We Are the Music Makers (2003), for S.A.T.B. choir & piano
• A Song of Hosea (2005), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ
• Four Sonnets (2005), for S.A.T.B. choir & piano
• Ode to Man (2005), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
• Afternoon on a Hill (2006), for two-part children's choir & piano
• Two Shakespearean Poems (2008), for S.A.T.B. choir & piano

Instrumentales

• Fantasy and Toccata (1946), for organ
• Sonata No. 1 (1948), for piano
• A Quiet Afternoon (1948), for piano
• Barcarolles (1949), for piano
• Pastorale (1949), for organ
• Sonata No. 2 (1949), for piano
• Spiders (1968), for harpsichord
• Eight Etudes (1975), for piano
• A Quaker Reader (1976), for organ
• Sky Music (1976), for harp
• After Reading Shakespeare (1980), for cello
• Suite (1980), for guitar
• Views from the Oldest House (1981), for organ
• Song and Dance (1986), for piano
• For Shirley (1989), for piano duet
• Organbook I. (1989), for organ
• Organbook II. (1989), for organ
• Organbook III. (1989), for organ
• Six Pieces (1997), for organ
• 99 Notes for the Millenium (1999), for piano
• For Ben (1999), for piano
• Recalling (2003), for piano
• For Barbara (2006), for piano
• For Don (2006), for piano
• For Marian (2006), for piano
• For Mary (2006), for piano
• For Rosemary (2006), for piano
• 75 Notes for Jerry (2007), for piano

Grabaciones principales

• Songs of Ned Rorem Susan Graham Malcolm Martineau^[1]
• Songs of Ned Rorem with Charles Bressler, Phyllis Curtin, Donald Gramm, Ned Rorem, piano.
• Three Symphonies José Serebrier, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. 8.559149^[2]
• Songs, Carole Farley, Ned Rorem, piano

Premios y distinciones

• 1951 - Fulbright Fellowship
• 1957 - Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1968 - National Institute of Arts and Letters
• 1976 - Premio Pulitzer por Air Music^[3]
• 1989 - Grammy
• 1998 -Musical America
• 2003 - ASCAP
• 2004 - Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters

Bibliografía

• Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (Eds.) (2001). Who's Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-22974-X.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

• Answers.com: Ned Rorem
• Ned Rorem @ Boosey & Hawkes
• Art of the States: Ned Rorem
• The Official Ned Rorem Website
• Charles Amirkhanian and Fleur Paysour interview Ned Rorem, Nov. 16, 1987
• NewMusicBox cover: Ned Rorem in conversation with Frank J. Oteri, March 13, 2006 (includes video)
• Songs of Ned Rorem