Ned Rorem
Composer
Writer
October 23, 1923 – November 18, 2022
Books:
An Absolute Gift; Critical
Affairs: a Composer's Journal; Dear Paul, Dear Ned: The Correspondence of Paul
Bowles and Ned Rorem; Facing the Night: A Diary (1999-2005) and Musical
Writings; Knowing When to Stop: A Memoir; Music and People; Music from Inside
Out; Other Entertainment: Collected Pieces; Paul's Blues; Pure Contraption; Setting
the Tone: Essays and a Diary; Settling the Score: Essays on Music; The Final
Diary; The Nantucket Diary; The New York Diary; The Paris Diary; Wings of
Friendship: Selected Letters, 1944-2003.
Music:
75 Notes for Jerry (2007);
99 Notes for the Millennium (1999); A Childhood Miracle (1951); A Christmas
Carol (1952); A Dream of Nightingales (1992); A Journey (1976); A Little
Fantasy (2008); A Poison Tree (2007); A Quaker Reader (1976–1988); A Quiet
Afternoon (1948); A Sermon on Miracles (1947); A Song of Hosea (2005); After
Long Silence (1982); After Long Silence (1982); After Reading Shakespeare (1980);
Aftermath (2001–02); Afternoon on a Hill (2006); Air Music (1974); All Glorious
God (1955); Alleluia (1946); An American Oratorio (1983); An Oboe Book (1999); Anna
la Bonne (1989); Another Sleep (2000); Are You the New Person? (1989); Ariel
(1971); Ask Me No More (1963); Assembly and Fall (1975); Autumn Music
(1996–1997); Back to Life (1980); Barcarolles (1949); Before the Morning Star
(1986); Bertha (1968); Book of Hours (1975); Breathe On Me (1989); Bright Music
(1987); Canticle of the Lamb (1971); Canticles: Sets 1 & 2 (1971–72); Cello
Concerto (2002); Christ is Made the Sure Foundation (1992); Chromatic Fantasy
(2001); Clouds (1953); Concertino de Camera (1946); Concerto for English Horn
(1991–1992); Conversation (1957); Cradle Song (1953); Cries and Whispers (2000);
Cycle of Holy Songs (1951); Dance Suite (1949); Dances (1984); Day Music (1971);
Death and the Young Man (2007); Design (1953); Diversions (1990); Do I love you
more than a day? (1962); Double Concerto (1998); Eagles (1958); Early in the
Morning (1954); Echo's Song (1948); Eight Etudes (1975); Eleven Songs for Susan
(2007); Eleven Songs for Susan (2007); Eleven Studies for Eleven Players
(1959–1960); Evidence of Things Not Seen (1997); Exaltabo Te, Domine (1995); Fables
(1971); Fanfare and Flourish (1988); Fantasy and Polka (1989); Fantasy and
Toccata (1946); Far-Far-Away (1963); Ferry me across the water (1978); Festival
Alleluia (1992); Five Armenian Love Songs (1987); Five Poems of Walt Whitman
(1957); Flight for Heaven (1952); Flute Concerto (2002); For Barbara (2006); For
Ben (1999); For Don (2006); For Marian (2006); For Mary (2006); For Poulenc
(1963); For Rosemary (2006); For Shirley (1989); For Susan (1953); Four Colours
(2003); Four Dialogues (1953–1954); Four Hymns (1973); Four Introits (1999); Four
Madrigals (1947); Four Poems of Tennyson (1963); Four Prayers (2006); Four
Sonnets (2005); Four Sonnets of Shakespeare (2008); Frolic (1986); From an
Unknown Past (1950); From an Unknown Past (1950); From an Unknown Past (1950); From
When Cometh Song? (1978); Full of Life Now (1989); Give All to Love (1981); Gliding
O'er All (1957); Gloria (1970); Go, Lovely Rose (1979); Gods (1957); Goodbye My
Fancy (1988); He Shall Rule from Sea to Sea (1967); He Will Not Hear (2001); Hearing
(1966–1976); Homer (1986); How Like a Winter (2013); How Lovely is your
Dwelling Place (1994); I Am Rose (1955); I Feel Death... (1953); I Never Knew
(2001); I Strolled Across an Open Field (1959); I Will Always Love You (1955); I
Will Always Love You (1990); Ideas (1961); In a Gondola (1953); In Time of
Pestilence (1973); Julia's Clothes (1950); King Midas (1961); Last Poems of
Wallace Stevens (1971–1972); Laudemus Tempus Actum (1964); Lead Kindly Light
(1988); Let's Take a Walk (1981); Letters from Paris (1966); Lift up your Heads
(The Ascension) (1963); Lions (A Dream) (1963); Little Elegy (1949); Little
Lamb, Who Made Thee? (1982); Little Prayers (1973); Look Down, Fair Moon (1957);
Love (1953); Love Alone (1989); Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (1966); Love
in a Life (1951); Lovers (1964); Lullaby of the Woman of the Mountain (1950); Mallet
Concerto (2003); Memory (1959); Mercy and Truth Are Met (1983); Miracles of
Christmas (1959); Miss Julie (1965); Missa Brevis (1973); More Than A Day (1995);
Mountain Song (1948); My Papa's Waltz (1959); My Sad Captains (1995); Nantucket
(1978–79); Night Crow (1959); Night Music (1972); Nine Episodes for Four
Players (2001); Nocturne (2007); Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (1963); O Do Not
Love Too Long (1951); O God, My Heart is Ready (1992); O You to Whom I Often
and Silently Come (1957); Ode (1953); Ode to Man (2005); Orchestral works; Orchids (1959); Organ
Concerto (1985); Organbook I. (1989); Organbook II. (1989); Organbook III.
(1989); Our Town (2005); Pas de Trois (2002); Pastorale (1949); Piano Concerto
No. 1 (1948); Piano Concerto No. 2 (1951); Piano Concerto No. 3 (1969); Piano
Concerto No. 4 (1991); Picnic on the Marne (1983); Pilgrim Strangers (1984); Pilgrims
(1958); Pippa's Song (1953); Poèmes pour la paix (1953–1956); Poèmes pour la paix
(1953–1956); Poems of Love and the Rain (1963); Praise the Lord, O My Soul
(1982); Praises for the Nativity (1970); Prayer to Jesus (1973); Prayers and
Responses (1960); Present Laughter (1993); Proper for the Votive Mass of the
Holy Spirit (1966); Rain in Spring (1949); Recalling (2003); Recalling Nadia
(2014); Reconciliation (1957); Remembering Tommy (1979); Remembrance of Things
Past (1998); Requiem (1948); Romeo and Juliet (1977); Root Cellar (1959); Sally's
Smile (1953); Santa Fe Songs (1980); See How They Love Me (1956); Septet Scenes
from Childhood (1984–1985); Serenade on Five English Poems (1975); Seven Motets
for the Church Year (1986); Sicilienne (1950); Sinfonia (1957); Sing, My Soul,
His Wondrous Love (1955); Six Pieces (1997); Six Variations (1995); Sky Music
(1976); Snake (1959); Solemn Prelude (1973); Some Trees (1968); Sometimes With
One I Love (1957); Somewhere... (1994); Sonata No. 1 (1948); Sonata No. 2 (1949);
Sonata No. 3 (1954); Song and Dance (1986); Song for a Girl (1953); Songs of
Sadness (1994); Songs Old and New (2008); Songs Old and New (2008); Sonnet
(1980); Sonnet 144 (Two Loves I Have) (2010); Sound the Flute (2004); Soundpoints
(2003); Spiders (1968); Spirit Divine (1992); Spring (1947); Spring and Fall
(1946); Spring Music (1990); Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1947); String
Quartet No. 3 (1991); String Quartet No. 4 (1994); String Symphony (1985); Such
Beauty as Hurts to Behold (1957); Suite (1980); Sun (1966); Sun (1966); Sunday
Morning (1977); Surge Illuminare (1977); Swords and Plowshares (1990); Swords
and Plowshares (1990); Symphony No. 1 (1950); Symphony No. 2 (1956); Symphony
No. 3 (1958); Te Deum (1986–87); That Shadow, My Likeness (1963); The Animals
Sick of the Plague; The Anniversary (1961); The Auden Poems (1989); The Bird
Wounded by an Arrow; The Call (1951); The Dance (1978); The Dancer (1979); The
Death of Moses (1987); The End (2003); The End of Summer (1985); The Fox and
the Grapes; The Lion in Love; The Lordly Hudson (1947); The Midnight Sun (1953);
The Nightingale (1951); The Poets' Requiem (1954–55); The Robbers, (1956); The
Schuyler Songs (1987); The Schuyler Songs (1987); The Serpent (1972); The
Seventieth Psalm (1943); The Silver Swan (1949); The Sleeping Palace (1949); The
Sleeping Palace (1963); The Sowers (1980); The Stars Have Not Dealt (2007); The
Sun and the Frogs; The Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters (1968); The Tulip Tree
(1953); The Unquestioned Answer (2002); The Waking (1959); The Wintry Mind
(1980); Their Lonely Betters (1992); Three Calamus Poems (1982); Three Choruses
for Christmas (1978); Three Incantations from a Marionette Tale (1948); Three
Motets (1973); Three Poems for Demetrios Capetanakis (1954); Three Poems of
Baudelaire (1986); Three Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (2007); Three Prayers
(1973); Three Slow Pieces (1978); Three Women (1994); To a Young Girl (1951); To
the Willow Tree (1950); To You (1957); To You (1970); Trickle Drops (1970); Trio
(1960); Triptych (1992); Truth in the Night Season (1966); Two Poems of Edith
Sitwell (1948); Two Poems of Theodore Roethke (1959); Two Psalms and a Proverb
(1962); Two Sermons (2001); Two Shakespearean Poems (2008); Up-Hill (1979); Views
from the Oldest House (1981); Violin Concerto (1984); Violin Sonata (1948); Virelai
(1961); Visits to St. Elizabeth's (1957); Waiting (1996); War Scenes (1969); Water
Music (1966); We Are the Music Makers (2003); We Never Said Farewell (1975–76);
Whales, Weep Not! (1978); What If Some Little Pain (1949); What is Pink? (1987);
What Sparks and Wiry Cries (1956); While Sodom Was Occupied (2004); Whitman
Cantata (1983); Wild Nights (2007); Winter Pages (1981); Women's Voices
(1975–1976); Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (2004); Youth, Day, Old Age and
Night (1954).
Movies and television:
Camera
Three (1965–1977); Flicker (2008); For the Whales (1989); Furies (1978); Great
Conversations in Music (2005); Jack Mitchell: My Life Is Black and White (2006);
Ned Rorem: Word & Music (2005); Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt
& Anderson Cooper (2016); Nuit américaine (2005); Paul Bowles: The Complete
Outsider (1994); Sleep in a Nest of Flames (2001); The 65th Annual Grammy
Awards (2023).
