Setting the tone : essays and a diary / Ned Rorem.
| Author/creator |
Rorem, Ned, 1923-2022 |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | New York : Coward-McCann, Inc., ©1983. |
| Description | 383 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Diary. The piano in my life ; Of vanity ; Being ready ; Paris in the spring ; Nantucket diary, 1974 ; On Edmund White's states of desire ; Setting the tone ; Being alone -- People. Women in music ; Misia ; Remembering Janet ; Cosima Wagner's diaries ; Boulanger as teacher ; Thomson as teacher ; Messiaen and Carter on their birthdays ; When Paul Jacobs plays Debussy ; Thinking of Ben ; Testimony: the memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich ; Boulez ; Cocteau and music ; Vera Stravinsky's and Robert Craft's Stravinsky in pictures and documents ; Stravinsky at 100 ; An Auden ; Corageous coward ; Shaw: the great composers -- The musical voice. Teaching and performance ; The American art song ; More notes on song ; Faure's song ; The Melisande notebook ; Faure and Debussy ; Considering Carmen ; Notes on a French bias ; A triptych notebook: reactions to the theater pieces of Ravel, Poulenc and Satie ; Thirteen ways of looking at a critic -- Early pieces. Writing songs ; Song and singer ; Listening and hearing ; Composer and performance ; Arthur Honegger ; The Beatles ; The avant-garde as Demode ; Around Satie's Socrate ; Pawl bowles ; Remembering a poet ; Remembering Green. |
| Abstract | Ned Rorem, the acclaimed American composer and writer, displays his incisive, sometimes outrageous genius for artistic critique and social commentary with a grand flourish in this engaging collection of essays and diary entries. Fearlessly offering opinions on a wealth of subjects--from the lives of the famous and infamous to popular culture to the state of contemporary art--Rorem proves once again that he is an artist who tells unforgettable stories not only through music, but with a pen, as well. This book gathers together essays and commentary previously published elsewhere and combines them with pages from Rorem's ongoing diary, offering readers a vivid and enlightening view of Rorem's world along with an honest portrait of the author himself. Whether he's lambasting critics and former friends and acquaintances, vivisecting opera, or presenting his views on theater, film, books, or composers and their music, Rorem is ingenious, incorrigible, and madly entertaining. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 82014427 |
| ISBN | 0698112342 |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML410.R693 A33 1983 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |