Ned Roremb. 1923ClaudiaKronenberg1998.jpg "Ned Rorem Photo: © Claudia Kronenberg") SnapshotEnglish Deutsch Ned Rorem has been called by Time magazine "the world's best composer of art songs" * Received the Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his orchestral suite Air Music * Has championed tonality throughout his career in his lyrical yet forthright music * His output spans nearly every musical medium, plus sixteen books * His recent chamber works have been toured or recorded by the Guarneri String Quartet, the Emerson String Quartet and the Beaux Arts Trio, among others * Vocal works have been performed and recorded by leading artists including Susan Graham, Brian Azawa, Judy Collins, and Carole Farley Works by Ned Rorem include: Lions (A Dream) (1963) for jazz group and orchestra Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra (1993) String Quartet No.4 (1995) "I conceive all music...vocally. Whatever my music is written for — tuba, tambourine, tubular bells — it is always the singer within me crying to get out." — Ned Rorem |
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