Ned Rorem
Composer
Writer
October 23, 1923 – November 18, 2022
Credits:
Books:
Music:
Movies and television:
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.
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).
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).
