Ned Rorem in Paris - 1954

from The Paris Diary: Paris 1954, page 146:

All day long I play and replay Kurt Weill's masterpiece Die Jasager on the piano, without understanding a word of the German about the child-student who kills himself.
cite as

Ned Rorem, The Paris Diary: Paris 1954. In The Paris Diary and The New York Diary 1951-1961 (New York, 1998), p. 146. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1398092286317 accessed: 28 March, 2024

location of experience: Paris

Listeners

Ned Rorem
Critic, essayist, Composer, Diarist […]
1923-

Listening to

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'Der Jasager'
written by Kurt Weill
performed by Ned Rorem

Experience Information

Date/Time 1954
Medium live
Listening Environment in private, indoors, solitary

Originally submitted by iepearson on Mon, 21 Apr 2014 15:58:06 +0100