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An Absolute Gift: A New Diary

An Absolute Gift: A New Diary


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About the Book

A magnificent collection of essays, opinions, and reflections on life, culture, art, love, and music--always lyrical, witty, and brazenly provocative--from one of the most acclaimed contemporary American composers Time magazine has called Ned Rorem "the world's best composer of art songs." But his genius does not end in the realm of classical music. Rorem has a rare gift for writing, as well, and the wide acclaim that has greeted his memoirs, essay collections, and published diaries attest to this fact. An Absolute Gift is a cornucopia of Roremisms--essays, reviews, and opinions on a vast array of fascinating subjects, from music to film to drama to sex. Here also are candid diary entries, displaying the frankness and remarkable insight for which Rorem is known. Whether he's lambasting or celebrating the world's great musical works and their creators (and, according to Stephen Sondheim, "He is one of the best writers about music that I have ever read"), offering intensely personal musings on death and love, or brilliantly dissecting the artist's craft, Ned Rorem is always fascinating, always provocative, and enormously entertaining.

About the Author :
Ned Rorem is one of the most accomplished and prolific composers of art songs in the world. Drawing on a wide range of poetry and prose as inspiration, his sources have included works by Walt Whitman, W. H. Auden, Paul Goodman, Frank O'Hara, Gertrude Stein, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, and Paul Monette. In 1976, Rorem received the Pulitzer Prize in Music for his orchestral work Air Music. His prodigious literary accomplishments include the publication of thirteen books, nine of which were released as ebooks by Open Road Media in the summer of 2013. Rorem lives in New York City.

Review :
"Always perceptive and witty." --Library Journal "Ned Rorem is a writer of elegance, grace, wit . . . a person of sensitive and rigorous intellect to match his lusts and ambitions." --The New York Times "He is magnificently committed to his own ideals, wondrously immune to cliché." --Los Angeles Times


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781480427730
  • Publisher: Open Road Media
  • Publisher Imprint: Open Road Media
  • Edition: Digital original
  • No of Pages: 286
  • ISBN-10: 148042773X
  • Publisher Date: 18 Jun 2013
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A New Diary


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