Ned Rorem Introduction (10 results)
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Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.About Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine 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 marg…in 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.
Past Tense: The Cocteau Diaries, Volume I.
Cocteau, Jean; Introduction by Ned Rorem; Annotations by Pierre Chanel; Translation by Richard Howard
Language: English
Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, 1987
Series: Book 1 of 2 - Past Tense
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- First Edition
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 1st. Bound in quarter cloth and paper covered boards with the spine stamped in gilt.
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Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Ashfield, MA, U.S.A.Twice Sold Tales
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Hardcover. Condition: New. brand new clean fine copy - enjoy.
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Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.Dan Pope Books
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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.
More imagesPublished by Da Capo PRess, New York, 1968
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- First Edition
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.Midway Book Store (ABAA)
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. 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.
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Seller: Materia Prima Books, New haven, CT, U.S.A.Materia Prima Books
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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 l…ightly creased. Minor edge wear to jacket extremities. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, now in protective mylar cover. Inscribed by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by George Braziller, New York, 1966
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- First Edition
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.Dan Pope Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. 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 s…hadow 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.
Published by Coward-McCann, New York, 1967
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- First Edition
Seller: ALEXANDER POPE, Kent, CT, U.S.A.ALEXANDER POPE
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. 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 Pica…sso, and composer Stravinsky amongst others. mauve cloth 2" scrape on front and 1" on the rear board for edge. No jacket.
The Difficulty of Being
Jean Cocteau (text); Ned Rorem (introduction); Elizabeth Sprigge (translation)
Published by New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1967
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- First Edition
Seller: Arnold M. Herr, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.Arnold M. Herr
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Add to basketHardcover. 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.
More imagesDEAR PAUL DEAR NED: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF PAUL BOWLES AND NED ROREM - DELUXE ISSUE, SIGNED
Bowles, Paul and Ned Rorem (letters); Lambert, Gavin (introduction)
Published by Elysium Press, [North Pomfret, VT], 1997
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Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA
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First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by all contributors, this being copy 'H'. Octavo (25.5cm); royal blue cloth, with title labels mounted to spine and front cover; publisher's matching clamshell case; [vii],viii-xiv,15-141,[3]pp, with four photographic plates tipped-in. Fine in a Fi…ne case, with a Fine copy of the original prospectus laid in. An exquisitely produced volume gathering the collected correspondence between Bowles and Rorem, spanning the years 1949-1995. "For more than fifty years, the writer/composer Paul Bowles and Ned Rorem have exchanged letters on a wide variety of subjects that encompass much of the artistic and literary scene of the post-War period.Dear Paul Dear Ned chronicles this friendship inmore than one hundred thirty letters, and includes an insightful Foreword by the authors' mutual friend, Gavin Lambert" (from the prospectus).
