Ned Rorem in Paris - at the end of 1956
from The New York Diary: Paris and New York Autumn, 1956, page 256:
André Fraigneau and Sherban Sidéry, bored by my singing of The Robbers, swoon at Mattiwilda Dobbs' record of Pippa's Song. But the opera, I tell them, has just as gorgeous a vocal line.
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Ned Rorem, The New York Diary: Paris and New York Autumn, 1956. In The Paris Diary and The New York Diary 1951-1961 (New York, 1998), p. 256. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1398193327935 accessed: 24 November, 2024
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'Pippa's Song'
written by Ned Rorem |
performed by Mattiwilda Dobbs |
'The Robbers'
written by Ned Rorem |
performed by Ned Rorem |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | at the end of 1956 |
| Medium | live, playback |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Notes
Experience included both live and recorded music.
Originally submitted by iepearson on Tue, 22 Apr 2014 20:02:08 +0100