Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem
Ned Roremis an American composer and diarist. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth23 October 1923
CountryUnited States of America
behave heard music seen
The twelve-toners behave as if music should be seen and not heard
artist stealing minors
Minor artists borrow, great ones steal.
thinking distortion composer
composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.
mean classic standards
Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from outside in.
art hero perfect
Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.
gay accomplishment i-can
Anyone can be gay - it's no accomplishment - but only I can be me.
art hero perfection
Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.
creative might playing-music
If you read reviews of concerts, the word 'creative' comes up all the time. However, performers playing music usually aren't creative. Critics might say they are, but they're just playing another persons work. They didn't create it.
mean needs states
If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.
strong book artist
If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . . . she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.
worry firsts
Compose first, worry later.
half literature concerts
I don't go to concerts much. I've heard everything. When I do go to movies, I walk out half the time. As for literature, I've read everything.
art mean dare
Art means to dare - and to have been right.
art speak music-is
The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of