Ned Rorem (Richmond, Indiana; 23 de octubre de 1923 - Nueva York, 18 de noviembre de 2022) fue un compositor y escritor estadounidense.
Biografía Recibió su educación en la University of Chicago, en el American Conservatory y el Instituto Curtis de Filadelfia perfeccionándose en la Juilliard School de New York.
Vivió en Marruecos y en París (1949-57). Declarado homosexual, en 1969 publicó sus diarios (Paris Diary) donde describió sus relaciones con Leonard Bernstein, Noel Coward, Samuel Barber y Virgil Thomson. Escribió varios ensayos, como Setting the Tone, Music From the Inside Out y Music and People.
Operas
A Childhood Miracle (1951) The Robbers (1956) 'Miss Julie (1965) Hearing (1966-76) Bertha (1968) The Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters (1968) Fables (1971) Our Town (2005)
Música orquestal Piano Concerto n.º 1 (1948) From an Unknown Past (1950) Symphony n.º 1 (1950) Piano Concerto n.º 2 (1951) Design (1953) Poemes pour la paix (1953/56) Symphony n.º 2 (1956) Sinfonia (1957) Eagles (1958) Pilgrims (1958) Symphony n.º 3 (1958) Ideas (1961) Lions (A Dream) (1963) Sun (1966) Water Music (1966) Piano Concerto n.º 3 (1969) Air Music (1974) Assembly and Fall (1975) A Quaker Reader (1976/88) Sunday Morning (1977) Remembering Tommy (1979) After Long Silence (1982) Violin Concerto (1984) Organ Concerto (1985) String Symphony (1985) Frolic (1986) The Schuyler Songs (1987), Fantasy and Polka (1989) Swords and Plowshares (1990) Piano Concerto n.º 4 (1991) Concerto for English Horn (1991-92) Triptych (1992), More Than A Day (1995) Waiting (1996) Double Concerto (1998), Cello Concerto (2002), Flute Concerto (2002) Mallet Concerto (2003) Eleven Songs for Susan (2007) Songs Old and New (2008)
Música de cámara
Concertino de Camera (1946) Mountain Song (1948) Dance Suite (1949), for two pianos Sicilienne (1950), for two pianos Violin Sonata (1954), for violin & piano Eleven Studies for Eleven Players (1959-60), Trio (1960), for flute, cello & piano Lovers (1964), Day Music (1971), Night Music (1972), Solemn Prelude (1973), Book of Hours (1975), Romeo and Juliet (1977), Three Slow Pieces (1978), Whales, Weep Not! (1978), Winter Pages (1981), Picnic on the Marne (1983), Dances (1984), for cello & piano Septet Scenes from Childhood (1984-85), The End of Summer (1985) Bright Music (1987) Fanfare and Flourish (1988) Diversions (1990), for brass quintet Spring Music (1990), for piano trio String Quartet n.º 3 (1991) Songs of Sadness (1994), String Quartet n.º 4 (1994) Six Variations (1995), for two pianos - four hands Autumn Music (1996-97), for violin & piano An Oboe Book (1999), for oboe & piano Cries and Whispers (2000), for trumpet & piano Nine Episodes for Four Players (2001), for clarinet, violin, cello & piano United States - Seven Viewpoints (2001), for string quartet Pas de Trois (2002), for oboe, violin & piano The Unquestioned Answer (2002), for flute, two violins, cello & piano Four Colours (2003), for clarinet & piano Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (2004), for piano quartet Four Prayers (2006), for flute & piano Nocturne (2007), for double bass & piano A Little Fantasy (2008), for cello & piano
Vocal
Two Poems of Edith Sitwell (1948), Requiem (1948), for voice & piano From an Unknown Past (1950), for voice & piano/orchestra Cycle of Holy Songs (1951), for voice & piano Flight for Heaven (1952), Four Dialogues (1953-54), Three Poems for Demetrios Capetanakis (1954), for voice & piano Poems pour la paix (1953/56), for medium voice & strings Five Poems of Walt Whitman (1957), for voice & piano Two Poems of Theodore Roethke (1959) for voice & piano King Midas (1961), cantata for voice(s) & piano Four Poems of Tennyson (1963), for voice & piano Poems of Love and the Rain (1963), Sun (1966), for high voice & orchestra Some Trees (1968), for soprano, mezzo-soprano, bass-baritone & piano War Scenes (1969), for medium-low voice & piano Gloria (1970), for two solo voices & piano Ariel (1971), Last Poems of Wallace Stevens (1971-72), Serenade on Five English Poems (1975), Women's Voices (1975-76), for soprano & piano Santa Fe Songs (1980), for baritone, string trio & piano After Long Silence (1982), Three Calamus Poems (1982), for baritone & piano The Schuyler Songs (1987), for soprano & orchestra The Auden Poems (1989), for tenor & piano trio Swords and Plowshares (1990), for solo voices & orchestra My Sad Captains (1995), for soprano, alto, tenor, bass & piano Evidence of Things Not Seen (1997), thirty-six songs for soprano, alto, tenor, baritone & piano Another Sleep (2000), Aftermath (2001-02), Sound the Flute (2004), for high voice, recorder & piano Eleven Songs for Susan (2007), for mezzo-soprano & chamber orchestra Three Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (2007), for voice & piano Songs Old and New (2008), for soprano & orchestra Four Sonnets of Shakespeare (2008), for tenor & piano
Canciones
Alleluia (1946) Spring and Fall (1946) Spring (1947) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1947) The Lordly Hudson (1947) Echo's Song (1948) Little Elegy (1949) Rain in Spring (1949) Silver Swan (1949) The Sleeping Palace (1949) What If Some Little Pain (1949) Julia's Clothes (1950) Lullaby of the Woman of the Mountain (1950) To the Willow Tree (1950) Love in a Life (1951) O Do Not Love Too Long (1951) The Call (1951) The Nightingale (1951) To a Young Girl (1951) A Christmas Carol (1952) Clouds (1953) Cradle Song (1953) For Susan (1953) In a Gondola (1953) Love (1953) Ode (1953) Pippa's Song (1953) Sally's Smile (1953) Song for a Girl (1953) The Tulip Tree (1953) The Midnight Sun (1953) Early in the Morning (1954) Youth, Day, Old Age and Night (1954) I Am Rose (1955) I Will Always Love You (1955) See How They Love Me (1956) What Sparks and Wiry Cries (1956) Conversation (1957) Gliding O'er All (1957) Gods (1957) Look Down, Fair Moon (1957) O You to Whom I Often and Silently Come (1957) Reconciliation (1957) Sometimes With One I Love (1957) Such Beauty as Hurts to Behold (1957) To You (1957) Visits to St. Elizabeth's (1957) I Strolled Across an Open Field (1959) Memory (1959) My Papa's Waltz (1959) Night Crow (1959) Orchids (1959) Root Cellar (1959) Snake (1959) The Waking (1959) Do I love you more than a day? (1962) Ask Me No More (1963) Far-Far-Away (1963) For Poulenc (1963) Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (1963) The Sleeping Palace (1963) That Shadow, My Likeness (1963) To You (1970) Trickle Drops (1970) The Serpent (1972) We Never Said Farewell (1975-76) A Journey (1976) Ferry me across the water (1978) From When Cometh Song? (1978) The Dance (1978) Nantucket (1978-79) Go, Lovely Rose (1979) The Dancer (1979) Up-Hill (1979) Back to Life (1980) Sonnet (1980) The Sowers (1980) The Wintry Mind (1980) Let's Take a Walk (1981) Anna la Bonne (1989) Are You the New Person? (1989) Full of Life Now (1989) I Will Always Love You (1990) A Dream of Nightingales (1992) Their Lonely Betters (1992) Somewhere... (1994) Three Women (1994) Remembrance of Things Past (1998) Chromatic Fantasy (2001) He Will Not Hear (2001) I Never Knew (2001) The End (2003) While Sodom Was Occupied (2004) The Stars Have Not Dealt (2007) A Poison Tree (2007) Death and the Young Man (2007) Wild Nights (2007)
Coral
The Seventieth Psalm (1943), for S.A.T.B. choir & wind ensemble A Sermon on Miracles (1947), for soprano solo, unison choir & strings Four Madrigals (1947), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir Three Incantations from a Marionette Tale (1948), for unison choir & piano From an Unknown Past (1950), for S.A.T.B. choir & orchestra I Feel Death... (1953), for three-part a cappella male choir The Poets' Requiem (1954-55), soprano solo, S.A.T.B. choir & orchestra All Glorious God (1955), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir Sing, My Soul, His Wondrous Love (1955), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir Miracles of Christmas (1959), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ Prayers and Responses (1960), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir Virelai (1961), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir Two Psalms and a Proverb (1962), for S.A.T.B. choir & string quartet Lift up your Heads (The Ascension) (1963), for S.A.T.B. choir, eight wind, nine brass & timpani Laudemus Tempus Actum (1964), for S.A.T.B. choir & orchestra Letters from Paris (1966), for S.A.T.B. choir & orchestra Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (1966), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir Proper for the Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit (1966), for unison choir & organ Truth in the Night Season (1966), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ He Shall Rule from Sea to Sea (1967), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ Praises for the Nativity (1970), for soprano, alto, tenor & bass soli, S.A.T.B. choir & organ Canticle of the Lamb (1971), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir Canticles: Sets 1 & 2 (1971-72), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir Four Hymns (1973), for S.A.T.B. choir & keyboard In Time of Pestilence (1973), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir Little Prayers (1973), for soprano & baritone soli, S.A.T.B. choir & orchestra Missa Brevis (1973), for soprano, alto, tenor & bass soli, & S.A.T.B. choir Prayer to Jesus (1973), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir Three Motets (1973), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ Three Prayers (1973), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir Surge Illuminare (1977), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ Three Choruses for Christmas (1978), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir Give All to Love (1981), for two-part choir & piano Little Lamb, Who Made Thee? (1982), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ Praise the Lord, O My Soul (1982), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ An American Oratorio (1983), for tenor solo, S.A.T.B. choir & orchestra Mercy and Truth Are Met (1983), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ Whitman Cantata (1983), for S.A.T.B. choir, brass ensemble & timpani Pilgrim Strangers (1984), for six a cappella male voices Before the Morning Star (1986), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir Homer (1986), for S.A.T.B. choir & ensemble Seven Motets for the Church Year (1986), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir Three Poems of Baudelaire (1986), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir Te Deum (1986-87), for S.A.T.B. choir, two trumpets, two trombones & organ Five Armenian Love Songs (1987), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir The Death of Moses (1987), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ What is Pink? (1987), for treble choir & piano Goodbye My Fancy (1988), for alto & baritone soli, S.A.T.B. choir & orchestra Lead Kindly Light (1988), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir Breathe On Me (1989), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir Love Alone (1989), for male-voice choir & piano duet Christ is made the sure foundation (1992), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ Festival Alleluia (1992), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir O God, My Heart is Ready (1992), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ Spirit Divine (1992), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ Present Laughter (1993), for S.A.T.B. choir, brass quintet & piano How Lovely is your Dwelling Place (1994), for S.A.T.B. choir & piano/organ Exaltabo Te, Domine (1995), for S.A.T.B. choir & keyboard Four Introits (1999), for S.A.T.B. choir & keyboard We Are the Music Makers (2003), for S.A.T.B. choir & piano A Song of Hosea (2005), for S.A.T.B. choir & organ Four Sonnets (2005), for S.A.T.B. choir & piano Ode to Man (2005), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir Afternoon on a Hill (2006), for two-part children's choir & piano Two Shakespearean Poems (2008), for S.A.T.B. choir & piano
Instrumentales
Fantasy and Toccata (1946), for organ Sonata No. 1 (1948), for piano A Quiet Afternoon (1948), for piano Barcarolles (1949), for piano Pastorale (1949), for organ Sonata No. 2 (1949), for piano Spiders (1968), for harpsichord Eight Etudes (1975), for piano A Quaker Reader (1976), for organ Sky Music (1976), for harp After Reading Shakespeare (1980), for cello Suite (1980), for guitar