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Ned Rorem (23 Oct 1923 - 18 Nov 2022)

Male Person - United States composer

Releases (3)

Official

Album

  1. Winter Pages / Bright Music 1992
  2. Songs of Ned Rorem 1993
  3. Eleven Studies for Eleven Players / Piano Concerto in Six Movements 10 Feb 2004

Relationships (5)

Teachers

  1. Leo Sowerby
  2. Bernard Wagenaar
  3. David Horne
  4. Yevgeniy Sharlat

Romantically Involved With

  1. John Cheever

Recordings by (24)

  1. Spring Music (1989–1990) for Violin, Cello and Piano = Für Violine, Violoncello und Klavier = Pour Violon, Violoncelle et Piano: Aubade / Toccata / Fantasia / Bagatelle / Presto 2:08 (1995)
  2. Spring Music (1989–1990) for Violin, Cello and Piano = Für Violine, Violoncello und Klavier = Pour Violon, Violoncelle et Piano: Aubade 4:19 (1995)
  3. Spring Music (1989–1990) for Violin, Cello and Piano = Für Violine, Violoncello und Klavier = Pour Violon, Violoncelle et Piano: Toccata 4:44 (1995)
  4. Spring Music (1989–1990) for Violin, Cello and Piano = Für Violine, Violoncello und Klavier = Pour Violon, Violoncelle et Piano: Fantasia 11:01 (1995)
  5. Spring Music (1989–1990) for Violin, Cello and Piano = Für Violine, Violoncello und Klavier = Pour Violon, Violoncelle et Piano: Presto 3:36 (1995)
  6. Pilgrims 7:14 (2006)
  7. Flute Concerto: I. The Stoner Tower 7:48 (2006)
  8. Flute Concerto: III. Leaving-Traveling-Hoping 7:57 (2006)
  9. Flute Concerto: IV. Sirens 4:43 (2006)
  10. Flute Concerto: V. Hymn 3:15 (2006)
  11. Flute Concerto: VI. False Waltz 2:29 (2006)
  12. Flute Concerto: VII. Résumé And Prayer 5:09 (2006)
  13. Violin Concerto: I. Twilight 3:54 (2006)
  14. Violin Concerto: II. Toccata-Chaconne 3:50 (2006)
  15. Violin Concerto: III. Romance Without Words 2:46 (2006)
  16. Violin Concerto: IV. Midnight 6:09 (2006)
  17. Violin Concerto: V. Toccata-Rondo 2:43 (2006)
  18. Violin Concerto: VI. Dawn 4:45 (2006)
  19. Violin Concerto: I. Twilight. Free and Spacious – Attacca 3:08 (23 Feb 2018)
  20. Violin Concerto: II. Toccata-Chaconne. Very fast 3:17 (23 Feb 2018)
  21. Violin Concerto: III. Romance Without Words. Hardly Moving 2:52 (23 Feb 2018)
  22. Violin Concerto: IV. Midnight. Slow 6:48 (23 Feb 2018)
  23. Violin Concerto: V. Toccata-Rondo. Very Fast 2:36 (23 Feb 2018)
  24. Violin Concerto: VI. Dawn. Wistful 4:56 (23 Feb 2018)

On Recordings (50)

Arranged

  1. Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair 2:38 Susan Graham, Malcolm Martineau (2000)

Instruments

  1. Women's Voices: No. 3. To My Dear and Loving Husband 1:58 Katherine Ciesinski, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  2. Women's Voices: No. 4. To the Ladies 1:22 Katherine Ciesinski, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  3. Six Songs: No. 1. Little Elegy 1:39 Phyllis Curtin, Donald Gramm, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  4. Women's Voices: No. 2. A Birthday 1:23 Katherine Ciesinski, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  5. The Nantucket Songs: No. 6. Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel 0:31 Phyllis Bryn‐Julson, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  6. Women's Voices: No. 10. Electrocution 2:09 Katherine Ciesinski, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  7. The Nantucket Songs: No. 9. Ferry Me Across the Water 1:35 Phyllis Bryn‐Julson, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  8. The Nantucket Songs: No. 2. The Dance 1:27 Phyllis Bryn‐Julson, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  9. Six Songs: No. 4. Look Down, Fair Moon 1:30 Phyllis Curtin, Donald Gramm, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  10. Women's Voices: No. 1. Let Not Charitable Hope 2:01 Katherine Ciesinski, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  11. Women's Voices: No. 11. Smile, Death 2:53 Katherine Ciesinski, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  12. The Nantucket Songs: No. 3. Nantucket 1:12 Phyllis Bryn‐Julson, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  13. The Nantucket Songs: No. 1. From Whence Cometh Song 0:55 Phyllis Bryn‐Julson, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  14. Six Songs: No. 2. Night Crow 1:54 Phyllis Curtin, Donald Gramm, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  15. Six Songs: No. 5. What Sparks and Wiry Cries 2:31 Phyllis Curtin, Donald Gramm, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  16. Women's Voices: No. 8. What Inn Is This? 1:10 Katherine Ciesinski, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  17. The Nantucket Songs: No. 8. Thoughts of a Young Girl 1:57 Phyllis Bryn‐Julson, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  18. Women's Voices: No. 9. Defiled Is My Name 1:08 Katherine Ciesinski, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  19. Some Trees: No. 2. The Grapevine 2:08 Phyllis Curtin, Beverly Wolff, Donald Gramm, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  20. Women's Voices: No. 5. If Ever Hapless Woman Had a Cause 2:36 Katherine Ciesinski, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  21. Some Trees: No. 1. Some Trees 1:57 Phyllis Curtin, Beverly Wolff, Donald Gramm, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  22. Some Trees: No. 3. Our Youth 6:36 Phyllis Curtin, Beverly Wolff, Donald Gramm, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  23. The Nantucket Songs: No. 4. Go, Lovely Rose 1:34 Phyllis Bryn‐Julson, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  24. The Nantucket Songs: No. 10. The Dancer 1:52 Phyllis Bryn‐Julson, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  25. Six Songs: No. 6. For Poulenc 2:59 Phyllis Curtin, Donald Gramm, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  26. Women's Voices: No. 6. We Never Said Farewell 2:35 Katherine Ciesinski, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  27. The Nantucket Songs: No. 7. Fear of Death 3:38 Phyllis Bryn‐Julson, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  28. Women's Voices: No. 7. The Stranger 3:03 Katherine Ciesinski, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  29. Six Songs: No. 3. The Tulip Tree 1:46 Phyllis Curtin, Donald Gramm, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  30. The Nantucket Songs: No. 5. Up-Hill 3:00 Phyllis Bryn‐Julson, Ned Rorem (1993) piano
  31. A Dream of Nightingales 3:24 Kurt Ollmann, Ned Rorem (14 Jun 1994) piano
  32. Nantucket Songs: The Dance / Nantucket / Go, Lovely Rose 4:18 Phyllis Bryn‐Julson, Ned Rorem (25 Oct 1994) piano
  33. Poems of Love and the Rain: Interlude 3:37 Beverly Wolff, Ned Rorem (27 May 1997) piano
  34. Poems of Love and the Rain: The Apparition 2:13 Beverly Wolff, Ned Rorem (27 May 1997) piano
  35. Poems of Love and the Rain: Song for Lying in Bed During a Night Rain 2:09 Beverly Wolff, Ned Rorem (27 May 1997) piano
  36. Poems of Love and the Rain: Do I Love You - Part 2 0:29 Beverly Wolff, Ned Rorem (27 May 1997) piano
  37. Poems of Love and the Rain: Stop All the Clocks 2:52 Beverly Wolff, Ned Rorem (27 May 1997) piano
  38. Poems of Love and the Rain: Love's Stricken 0:36 Beverly Wolff, Ned Rorem (27 May 1997) piano
  39. Poems of Love and the Rain: Do I Love You - Part 1 1:14 Beverly Wolff, Ned Rorem (27 May 1997) piano
  40. Poems of Love and the Rain: In the Rain 1:42 Beverly Wolff, Ned Rorem (27 May 1997) piano
  41. Poems of Love and the Rain: The Air is the Only 1:16 Beverly Wolff, Ned Rorem (27 May 1997) piano
  42. Poems of Love and the Rain: Song for Lying in Bed During a Night Rain (Conclusion) 1:13 Beverly Wolff, Ned Rorem (27 May 1997) piano
  43. Poems of Love and the Rain: From the Rain 1:26 Beverly Wolff, Ned Rorem (27 May 1997) piano
  44. Poems of Love and the Rain: Prologue - From the Rain 1:03 Beverly Wolff, Ned Rorem (27 May 1997) piano
  45. Such Beauty as Hurts to Behold 2:12 Carole Farley, Ned Rorem (Sep 2001) piano
  46. The Serpent 1:58 Carole Farley, Ned Rorem (Sep 2001) piano
  47. The Nightingale 1:13 Carole Farley, Ned Rorem (Sep 2001) piano
  48. Early in the Morning 1:36 Carole Farley, Ned Rorem (Sep 2001) piano
  49. Full of Life Now 1:48 Carole Farley, Ned Rorem (Sep 2001) piano

Credited as (36)

  1. Ned Rorem; Fenwick Smith, David Leisner, Ronald Thomas, Mihae Lee, Ann Hobson Pilot
  2. Baker, Rochberg, Rorem; Beaux Arts Trio
  3. Ned Rorem; The Fibonacci Sequence
  4. Ned Rorem; Susan Graham, Malcolm Martineau
  5. Vaughan-Williams, Berkeley, Carter, Rorem, Rogers, Chambers; Kyle Horch, Pamela Lidiard, Fenella Barton
  6. Ned Rorem; Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, IRIS Orchestra, Michael Stern
  7. Ned Rorem; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, José Serebrier
  8. Ned Rorem; Thomas Lanners
  9. Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  10. Ned Rorem; Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  11. Phyllis Bryn‐Julson, Ned Rorem
  12. Ned Rorem; Catherine Crozier
  13. Ned Rorem; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Shaw, Louis Lane
  14. Ned Rorem; Carolyn Enger
  15. Ned Rorem; Beverly Wolff, Modern Madrigal Quartet, Ned Rorem
  16. Beverly Wolff, Ned Rorem
  17. William Schuman, Ned Rorem, Louise Talma; Gregg Smith Singers
  18. Gregg Smith Singers, Gregg Smith, Ned Rorem
  19. Phyllis Curtin, Beverly Wolff, Donald Gramm, Ned Rorem
  20. Phyllis Curtin, Donald Gramm, Ned Rorem
  21. Katherine Ciesinski, Ned Rorem
  22. Jacob Druckman, David Del Tredici, Ned Rorem; Brass Ring
  23. Ned Rorem, Vincent Persichetti, Sydney Hodkinson; Thomas Stacy
  24. Meyer, Rorem; Emerson String Quartet
  25. Kurt Ollmann, Ned Rorem
  26. Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Ned Rorem; Gerald Finley, Julius Drake
  27. Ned Rorem; Monique McDonald, Delores Ziegler, Rufus Müller, Kurt Ollmann, Michael Barrett, Steven Blier
  28. Ned Rorem, The Choir of St. Thomas, Fifth Avenue, Gerre Hancock & Judith Hancock
  29. Ned Rorem
  30. Glass, Rorem, Bernstein; Gidon Kremer
  31. Ned Rorem; Royal Scottish National Orchestra, José Serebrier, Simon Mulligan, Wen‐Sinn Yang
  32. Alrich, Jenkins, Rorem; Evelyn Glennie, City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, Jean Thorel
  33. Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Haydn, Schubert, Rorem, Tchaikovsky; Beaux Arts Trio
  34. Ned Rorem; Philippe Quint, Jeffrey Khaner, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, José Serebrier

Works (509)

Composed

  1. Concertino da Camera (1946)
  2. Concertino da Camera: I. Allegro non troppo (1946)
  3. Concertino da Camera: II. Molto moderato (1946)
  4. Concertino da Camera: III. Presto (1946)
  5. Spring (1947)
  6. Sonata for Piano no. 1: I. Half-note = 72 (1948)
  7. Sonata for Piano no. 1: II. Adagio (1948)
  8. Sonata for Piano no. 1: III. Toccata. Clear, fast, and hard (1948)
  9. Two Songs: I. Little Elegy (1948)
  10. Mountain Song (1949)
  11. What If Some Little Pain... (1949)
  12. Three Barcarolles: No. 2. Tender (1949)
  13. Three Barcarolles (1949)
  14. Three Barcarolles: No. 3. Lento (freely) - Lively (1949)
  15. Three Barcarolles: No. 1. Graceful (1949)
  16. Sonata for Piano no. 2: II. Tarantella. Scherzando (1950)
  17. Sonata for Piano no. 2: III. Nocturne. Moderato (1950)
  18. Sonata for Piano no. 2: IV. Toccata (1950)
  19. Sonata for Piano no. 2: I. Overture. Allegretto (1950)
  20. From an Unknown Past: Hey Nonny No! (1951)
  21. From an Unknown Past: My Blood So Red (1951)
  22. From an Unknown Past: Suspiria (1951)
  23. From an Unknown Past: The Miracle (1951)
  24. From an Unknown Past: Tears (1951)
  25. From an Unknown Past: Crabbed Age and Youth (1951)
  26. From an Unknown Past (1951)
  27. From an Unknown Past: The Lover in Winter Plaineth for the Spring (1951)
  28. The Nightingale (1951)
  29. Lullaby of the Woman of the Mountain (1951)
  30. Love in a Life (1951)
  31. Piano Concerto no. 2: I. Somber and Steady (1951)
  32. Piano Concerto no. 2: II. Quiet and Sad (1951)
  33. Piano Concerto no. 2: III. Real Fast! (1951)
  34. Piano Concerto no. 2 (1951)
  35. Four Songs: IV. The Tulip Tree (1953)
  36. Sally's Smile (1953)
  37. Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night (1954)
  38. Sonata for Piano no. 3: I. Quarter-note = 144 (1954)
  39. Sonata for Piano no. 3: II. Slow (1954)
  40. Sonata for Piano no. 3: III. Scherzando (1954)
  41. Sonata for Piano no. 3: IV. Molto allegro (1954)
  42. What Sparks and Wiry Cries (1956)
  43. See How They Love Me (1956)
  44. Five Poems of Walt Whitman: II. Look Down, Fair Moon (1957)
  45. Visits to St. Elizabeth's (1957)
  46. Such Beauty as Hurts to Behold (1957)
  47. Eagles (1958)
  48. Eleven Studies for Eleven Players: VII. In Memory of My Feelings (1959 - 1960)
  49. Eleven Studies for Eleven Players: VIII. Fugato (1959 - 1960)
  50. Eleven Studies for Eleven Players: IX. Elegy (1959 - 1960)
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Links (14)

Official Homepages

  1. http://www.nedrorem.net/
  2. http://www.nedrorem.com/

Other Databases

  1. https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/ned-rorem-111115
  2. https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb137452758
  3. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79122081
  4. https://d-nb.info/gnd/119278316
  5. https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79122081
  6. http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6x63q77

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/776698

Allmusic

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000685535

Imdb

  1. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0635268/

VIAF ID

  1. http://viaf.org/viaf/105151325

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q733299

Stream For Free

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