11 days ago by lrmusicbcn

El sello Linn Records acaba de publicar un disco monográfico dedicado al compositor estadounidense Ned Rorem (1923). Es un CD de canciones interpretadas por The Prince Consort, un grupo que forman una soprano, una mezzosoprano, un contratenor, un tenor y un barítono y que acompaña al piano Alisdair ...

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18 days ago by Aileen Robinson

I’m so excited. Jeff and I recorded “On a Singing Girl” on Sunday and Monday, and I love how it turned out. We have a xylophone sampler that we used for the piano part, and we did the vocals really dry. I’m not xylophobic like Homer Simpson, but I agree with him that it is definitely the sound of sk ...

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25 days ago by admin

“I never go to concerts any more, and I don’t know anyone who does. It’s hard still to care whether some virtuoso tonight will perform the Moonlight Sonata a bit better or worse than another virtuoso performed it last night. I do often attend what used to be called avant-garde recitals, though seldo ...

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41 days ago by admin

I’ve posted a new song called (I’m pretty sure) “Mid-Autumn Moon” on my Neocha page for your listening pleasure. Give it a spin! This song has been 5 years in the making, and I still don’t quite consider it done, but this will do for a demo. I wanted to get it out before [...]

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59 days ago by Aileen Robinson

There is a passage in Ned Rorem’s Paris Diary from July of 1951 that is in quotation marks. I find this particular passage quite disturbing, and I hope that the quotation marks mean that he is referencing someone else’s story. This entry deals with him (if it is indeed him) as a boy spending summers ...

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59 days ago by Aileen Robinson

Before I could start learning songs out of the Ned Rorem collection I bought, I wanted to put them in chronological order of when they were composed. I scoured various sites online to find the years of composition for each song. I put them in order and numbered them in the index of my book. Number o ...

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64 days ago by Aileen Robinson

As a young man in his Paris Diary of 1951, Ned predicts the circumstances of his own death: “Of course, I am convinced that it will be violent, unpleasant, and soon, either by the hand of a friend near the Boulevard Clichy (though, unfortunately, I never take chances unless drunk, and drunks are nev ...

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65 days ago by aileensoprano

I love how Ned starts off his first diary entry of the Paris diaries in 1951: “A stranger asks, ‘Are you Ned Rorem?’ I answer, ‘No,’ adding, however, that I’ve heard of and would like to meet him.” When one thinks of a diary, the connotation is one of private thoughts and emotions laid out on page f ...

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66 days ago by aileensoprano

Okay, so even if it had taken the maximum of fourteen business days to ship my tools, I still don’t have a good excuse for not having written. My books and cds actually came pretty quickly (buy Amazon!); I guess it just takes a lot for me to stay encouraged even at the start of something like this. ...

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86 days ago by thombeau

His diaries were very influential during our formative years. [foto: horst]

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