Wings of friendship : selected letters, 1944-2003 / Ned Rorem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rorem, Ned, 1923-2022.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rorem, Ned, 1923-2022--Correspondence.

Rorem, Ned.

Rorem, Ned, 1923-2022.

Composers--United States--Correspondence.

Composers.

United States.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : Shoemaker & Hoard : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2005]

Summary:

Other than the publication of his correspondence between himself and Paul Bowles, Ned Rorem has never published the vast correspondence he shared with a sublime mix of people-Leontyne Price, Virgil Thomson, Reynolds Price, Angela Lansbury, Claus Von Bulow, Lou Harrison, Edward Albee, Judy Collins, Frank O'Hara, Alfred Kinsey, Gore Vidal, Cynthia Ozick, and many more. Anyone interested in the arts in America for the last half of the twentieth century will find much to enjoy in this wonderful book.

Ned Rorem is one of America's greatest composers. In the literary community, Rorem is most famous for his diaries, five volumes of which have been published so far. These diaries are elegant and moving, combining deep honesty with the often contradictory and complex testimony of everyday life.

But if the diaries are documents of self-examination, his letters may be read as texts of self-invention, as he traces the long arc of his creative life by allowing us to join his friends on his daily journey. There's a guilty pleasure in reading other people's mail, and Rorem's letters are often supremely filled with gossip and insight. More than forty friends, lovers and relatives are included, organized chronologically.

Contents:

Part 1 1940s & 1950s 9

Part 2 1960s 49

Part 3 1970s 75

Part 4 1980s 121

Part 5 1990s 185

Part 6 2000 to 2004 291.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

1593760353

OCLC:

57625802