Introduction Ned Rorem (11 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine dust jacket. First Edition (so stated). Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2000. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Dust Jacket is not price clipped (30.00). No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh and crisp, probably never read. Bound in the original brown boards, with black spine. Gilt lettering is bright and shiny. Illustrated with 16 pages of photos. Index. "For 40 years, the diaries of Ned Rorem have been ideal bedtime reading for musicians. This first installment of the new century, covering 1986 to 1999, parades a few of Rorem's familiar themes: insomnia, self-contradictions, letters to the editor (some never sent, some never published), and, of course, notes on his own music (including an especially lovely commentary on the English Horn Concerto). There are some unexpected anecdotes as well, including one about dinner with Nancy Reagan, an appreciation of Frank O'Hara, and the chronicle of a long-running dispute with neighbor Itzhak Perlman's air conditioner (the air conditioner wins). Rorem appraises new music, slamming Boulez, Schnittke, and Bruce Springsteen (who share good company with Beethoven and Mother Teresa), but there is a sudden about-face on Rorem's former bête noire, Elliott Carter. This time, however, the tone is darker than before because death is all around. Rorem's parents, in separate wings of a nursing home, die within months of each other. And above all, the diary covers the long decline and death of partner Jim Holmes, who suffers from Crohn's disease, cancer, and HIV (he withholds his discovery that he's been carrying the virus from Rorem for several months). The final third of the diary, when Holmes's pills alone are described as costing $15,000 a year, is achingly sad, but somehow, Rorem avers, 'the purpose of a diary is to evade real life.' He thinks that 'nobody sings my songs anymore,' so it is to be hoped that he was heartened by Susan Graham's sensational Rorem anthology released in 2000, as well as his 2001 Grammy nomination for 'best contemporary classical composition' for the song cycle EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN. Rorem's prose, as ever, is delightful and instantly recognizable as his alone: 'there never was a Great Man in America, except maybe Martha Graham." -- William R. Braun. . First Edition (so stated). Hard Cover. Fine condition./Fine dust jacket. 8vo. xiii, 416pp. . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 1st. Bound in quarter cloth and paper covered boards with the spine stamped in gilt.

Hardcover. Condition: New. brand new clean fine copy - enjoy.

Hardcover. xiii, 416p. + 16p. photos, near-fine first edition stated in boards and bright unclipped dj.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press [2001}. First edition. First Printing. Hardbound. NEW. Very fine, very fine in all respects. Pristine, unread copy. Comes with protective mylar cover. Smoke-free shop.

Hardcover. 19.5 x 13 cm. Sm 8vo. 150 pages. Blue cloth in dust jacket. Unabridged reproduction of the first edition with a new introduciton by Ned Rorem. Dust jacket flap is clipped, dust jacket spine faded, some soiling to jacket. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author at preliminary blank. 9.5 x 6.5 in. xiii, 416 pp. with 28 b/w photographic illustrations. Quarter black and blush paper boards lettered in gilt at spine and front board. Bottom corners of front and rear boards lightly creased. Minor edge wear to jacket extremities. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, now in protective mylar cover. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean, tight, unread copy with price ($5.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. All B&W photographs intact. Jacket has light edgewear and rubbing, as well as a sticker shadow on the front jacket cover. Very light water staining to jacket spine (all as pictured). Rorem won a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1976 for his Air Music: Ten Etudes for Orchestra.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First American. Stated 1st American edition. Introduction by composer, Ned Rorem. Cocteau gives an intimate glimpse into friendships and working relationships with the elite of the intellectual artistic world of Paris in the 1920s & 30s: author Proust, author Gide, ballet dancer Nijinsky, artist Picasso, and composer Stravinsky amongst others. mauve cloth 2" scrape on front and 1" on the rear board for edge. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st American edition. Inscribed and signed by Ned Rorem on the first free endpaper to screenwriter Gavin Lambert; from Lambert's library, as indicated by his rubber-stamp on the first free endpaper. Small octavo. Condition: some minor nicking to top and bottom edges of DJ spine; small chip to top edge of back panel of DJ; light wear to DJ; slight sun-fading to top and bottom edges of cloth binding; else near fine in very good DJ. Pages: xvi, 160.