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Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Ned Rorem (1923-2022)

Composer Ned Rorem.
Nancy Lee Katz
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Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
Composer Ned Rorem.

Celebrate the music of American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ned Rorem.

This week Bill invites us to celebrate the music of American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ned Rorem.

For years, the great singers of the world have treasured his art songs, but there is so much more.

Rorem composed three symphonies, four piano concertos and other orchestral works, chamber music, ten operas, choral works, ballets and music for the theatre, plus he published sixteen books!

His diaries are well known for their candor about his life and loves. And many of his solo piano works were written for his longtime partner James Holmes.

At his death, the New York Times wrote, “Over his long career, his reason for actually writing the music itself, he said, was simple: “Because I want to hear it.”

Listen on demand to this week's episodes.

Monday, June 19

Rorem, Ned: Piano Concerto in Six Movements

VI. Sparks

The Louisville Orchestra/Jorge Mester

Jerome Lowenthal, piano

Ned Rorem

First Edition Music FECD 0021

4:41

Rorem, Ned: Piano Concerto in Six Movements

VI. Sparks (excerpt)

The Louisville Orchestra/Jorge Mester

Jerome Lowenthal, piano

Ned Rorem

First Edition Music FECD 0021

1:06

Rorem, Ned: Mountain Song

Fenwick Smith, flute

Rorem, N. Chamber Music with Flute – Mountain Song /

Romeo and Juliet / Trio / Book of Hours / Prayers

Naxos 8.559674

3:06

Rorem, Ned: Concertino Da Camera

I. Allegro Non Troppo

II. Molto Moderato

III. Presto

Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra/Scott Speck

Jory Vinikour, harpsichord

20th Century Harpsichord Concertos

Cedille CDR90000188

17:13

Rorem, Ned/Paul Goodman: "The Lordly Hudson"

Nathan Gunn, Kevin Murphy

American Anthem

EMI Classics 5 73160 2

2:15

Rorem, Ned: Symphony No.1

I. Maestoso; II. Andantino

III. Largo; IV. Allegro

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/José Serebrier

Three Symphonies

Naxos 8.559149

22:08

Tuesday, June 20

Rorem, Ned: "Eagles"

The Louisville Orchestra/Gerhardt Zimmermann

Air Music, Eagles

First Edition Records 787

8:19

Rorem, Ned: “Spring” “Youth, Day, Old age, and Night"

Carole Farley, soprano; Ned Rorem, piano

Ned Rorem: Selected Songs

Naxos 8.559084

3:57

Rorem, Ned: Symphony No. 2

I. Broad, Moderate

II. Tranquillo

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/José Serebrier

Three Symphonies

Naxos 8.559149

19:06

Rorem, Ned: Piano Concerto No. 2

II. Quiet & Sad

III. Real Fast!

Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Jose Serebrier

Simon Mulligan, piano

Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto

Naxos 8.559315

18:08

Wednesday, June 21

Rorem, Ned: Winter Pages

I. "Mirrors"

II. "The sun that brief December day"

III. "Around the house the flakes fly faster"

IV. "Paris then"

V. "Dorchester Avenue"

VIII. "Moments fly by like a snowstorm"

IX. "Rue des Saints-Pères"

X. "Valse Oubliée"

XII. "Still Life"

Ida Kavafian, Charles Wadsworth, Todd Palmer, Fred Sherry & Frank Morelli

Winter Pages/ Bright Music

New World Records 80416

17:40

Rorem, Ned: String Symphony

I. Waltz

II. Berceuse

III. Scherzo

VI. Rondo

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra/Robert Shaw

String Symphony / Sunday Morning / Eagles

New World Records NW 353 2

14:41

Rorem, Ned: “Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening”

Carole Farley, soprano; Ned Rorem, Piano

Ned Rorem: Selected Songs

Naxos 8.559084

1:45

Rorem, Ned: Spring Music

I. Aubade; II. Toccata

IV. Bagatelle; V. Presto

Beaux Arts Trio

Spring Music

Philips 438 866-2

15:07

Thursday, June 22

Rorem, Ned: Bright Music

I. Fandango

II. Pierrot

III. Dance-Song-Dance

Marya Martin, Andre-Michel Schub, Fred Sherry, Ani and Ida Kavafian

Winter Pages/ Bright Music

New World Records 80416

12:16

Rorem, Ned: Cello Concerto

V. "A Single Tone in A Dozen Implications" (excerpt)

Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Jose Serebrier; Wen-Sinn Yang, cello

Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto

Naxos 8.559315

:45

Rorem, Ned: Cello Concerto

I. "Curtain-Rise"

II. "There & Back"

V. "A Single Tone in A Dozen Implications"

VII. "Valse Rappelee:

Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Jose Serebrier

Wen-Sinn Yang, cello

Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto

Naxos 8.559315

8:20

Rorem, Ned: Concerto for English Horn

I. "Preamble & Amble"

II. "Love Letter"

III. "Recurring Dream"

IV. "Perpetual Motion"

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra/Michael Palmer

Thomas Stacy, english horn

Three Concerti

New World Records 80489

16:06

Rorem, Ned: Conversation with Raymond Bisha,

Ned Rorem and Jose Serebrier: Part 4, 5

Raymond Bisha, Jose Serebier

Serebrier, J. / Rorem, N.: A Conversation with Raymond Bisha

Naxos 8.578195

3:39

Rorem, Ned: Flute Concerto

III. “Sirens”

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Jose Serebrier

Jeffrey Khaner, flute

Flute Concerto • Violin Concerto

Naxos 8.559278

4:44

Rorem, Ned: “Poulenc”

Susan Graham, soprano; Malcolm Martineau, piano

Songs of Ned Rorem

Erato 80222 2

1:54

Rorem, Ned: Cello Concerto

VIII. Adrift (excerpt)

Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Jose Serebrier

Wen-Sinn Yang, cello

Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto

Naxos 8.559315

2:50

Friday, June 23

Rorem, Ned: Flute Concerto

IV. "Hymn"

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/ Jose Serebrier

Jeffrey Khaner, flute

Flute Concerto Violin Concerto

Naxos 8.559278

3:15

Rorem, Ned: Air Music

I. All players

III. Woodwind, strings and piano

IV. Solo tuba and violin with flutes, oboes, english horn, contrabassoon, and violins

V. Three clarinets, three trumpets, snare drum, solo violin and strings

VI. Trombone and cello, with piano, violin, and violas pizzicatto

VIII. Solo viola with bassoon, four horns, and harp

The Louisville Orchestra/Peter Leonard

Air Music, Eagles

First Edition Records 787

21:13

Rorem, Ned: Violin Concerto

1. Twilight

2. Toccata-Chaconne

3. Romance without Words

4. Midnight

5. Toccata-Rondo

6. Dawn

New York Philharmonic Orchestra/Leonard Bernstein

Gidon Kremer, violin

Violin Concertos/ Serenade

DG 445 185

28:43

Rorem, Ned: Opus 101 “Santa Fe Songs,” “Ferry me across the water”

Susan Graham, soprano; Malcolm Martineau, piano

Songs of Ned Rorem

Erato 80222

4:30

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