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"I base my identity on being a composer, who does other things."
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ned Rorem is one of the most accomplished and prolific composers of art songs in the world. As literary as he is musical, Rorem recorded much of his experience — as a composer, as an artist, as a man — in his many diaries, journals, and collected essays.
"I base my identity on being a composer, who does other things."
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ned Rorem is one of the most accomplished and prolific composers of art songs in the world. As literary as he is musical, Rorem recorded much of his experience — as a composer, as an artist, as a man — in his many diaries, journals, and collected essays.
