Ned Rorem in Paris - between May, 1951 and December, 1951

from The Paris Diary: Paris September-December, 1951, page 64:

These days leading toward Christ's rebirth have been scary and surrealistic, beginning with Les Noces which always leaves me feeling slight. Then a pointless dinner at Marie Blanche's where I played my new Siciliènne at two pianos (with Robert V.-L.) and nobody said they liked it because Sauguet hates me on account of Jacques Dupont, and that is Paris society, more babyish and spiteful than in America.
cite as

Ned Rorem, The Paris Diary: Paris September-December, 1951. In The Paris Diary and The New York Diary 1951-1961 (New York, 1998), p. 64. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1398006372028 accessed: 4 December, 2024

location of experience: Paris

Listeners

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

Listening to

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'Les Noces'
written by Igor Stravinksy
Siciliènne
written by Robert V.-L., Ned Rorem
performed by Ned Rorem

Experience Information

Date/Time between May, 1951 and December, 1951
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, in private, indoors

Originally submitted by iepearson on Sun, 20 Apr 2014 16:06:12 +0100