Word: rorem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gubaidulina's knotty Offertorium with the New York Philharmonic, while across the East River, the Brooklyn Philharmonic presented the first indoor performance of Tobias Picker's frisky Keys to the City, written in 1983 to celebrate the Brooklyn Bridge's centenary. And Pittsburgh got the first hearing of Ned Rorem's rawboned An American Oratorio, performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Mendelssohn Choir...
...Rorem's new oratorio, based on texts by Poe, Longfellow, Twain, Crane, Melville, Whitman, Emma Lazarus and Sidney Lanier, is one of four premieres this season for the prolific composer, and it too treads familiar ground. Best known for his art songs and his candid, elegantly written diaries recounting his life and loves in Paris, New York and elsewhere, the composer, 61, has long been a conservative voice in American music. He speaks in a basically breezy 1940s tonality, which is leavened by a few more recent technical advances. In An American Oratorio, Rorem's style works effectively with gentle...
...over the lack of new productions staged for her. Instead, she concentrated on her "first love," recitals. She is booked on recital tours through 1987, allowing her to indulge a longstanding predilection both for spirituals and for songs by such contemporary composers as Samuel Barber, John La Montaine, Ned Rorem, Margaret Bonds and Dominick Argento. Price also is scheduled to give a series of master classes in San Francisco in 1986. When dealing with sopranos, retirement is a term best understood loosely: five days after her operatic farewell, Price rushes off to St. Paul to help inaugurate the Ordway Music...
...seven" researchers during his four-year labor. But in a Los Angeles Times survey, seven of nine principals whose words and thoughts Heymann duly recorded claim they were never interviewed. To support Hutton's own version of a lavish Paris party, Heymann adds the observation that Composer Ned Rorem saw her dancing "moodily with Aly Khan." But Rorem's Paris Diary notes instead that Hutton danced with "one of the forgotten gigolos...
...Rorem, composer of some of the best of today's art songs, says: "They are colleagues of mine, speaking the same language with different accents." In fact, he adds, the Beatles' haunting composition, She's Leaving Home-one of twelve songs in the Sgt. Pepper album-"is equal to any song that Schubert ever wrote." Conductor Leonard Bernstein's appreciation is just as high; he cites Schumann. As Musicologist Henry Pleasants says: "The Beatles are where music is right...