By Ned Rorem
ISBN-10: 0306808382
ISBN-13: 9780306808388
One of America’s most vital modern composers, Ned Rorem is additionally broadly acclaimed as a diarist of precise perception and fresh candor. jointly, his Paris Diary, first released in 1966, and The big apple Diary,which a 12 months later, paint a colourful panorama of Rorem’s international and its recognized population, in addition to a desirable self-portrait of a footloose younger artist unabashedly ingesting deeply of lifestyles. during this amalgam of forthright own reflections and cogent social observation, unparalleled for its time, Rorem’s anecdotal reminiscences of the last decade from 1951 to 1961 signify homosexual Liberation in its infancy because the writer freely expresses his open sexuality now not as a revelation yet as an easy truth of life.
With consummate ability and unexpurgated perception, a more youthful, wilder Rorem displays on a bygone time and tradition and, in doing so, holds a revealing reflect to himself.
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