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
Looking Ahead: With librettiest J.D. McClatchy, currently writing Little Nemo, a children's opera based on Winsor McCay's comic strip of the same name, commissioned by the Sarasota Children's Opera.
"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
ClaudiaKronenberg1998.jpg "Ned Rorem Photo: © Claudia Kronenberg")
