Ned Rorem - between 1930 and 1960
from 1965, page 136:
My frequent thoughts of Nell are more pleasant than sad, doubtless because I saw so little of her during the last three years of her life. What is revived is the happy début. To recall her is to recall her repertory, those many works we all heard first through her: Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and Mavra, Milhaud's Chansons hébraïques, Chanler, Mahler, Fauré, Copland's In the Beginning, Messiaen's Poèmes pour Mi. Reading through the Messiaen again took me to his other cycle, Chants de terre et ciel, which in turn, like Proust's bit into the madeleine, brought back … more >>
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Ned Rorem, 1965. In The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem 1961-1972 (San Francisco, ), p. 136. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1420753703204 accessed: 12 December, 2024
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'Chants de terre et ciel'
written by Olivier Messiaen |
performed by Janet Fairbank |
Gurrelieder
written by Arnold Schoenberg |
performed by Nell Tangeman |
'In the Beginning'
written by Aaron Copland |
performed by Nell Tangeman |
'Mavra'
written by Igor Stravinksy |
performed by Nell Tangeman |
Oedipus Rex
written by Igor Stravinksy |
performed by Nell Tangeman |
'Poèmes pour Mi'
written by Olivier Messiaen |
performed by Nell Tangeman |
6 chants populaires hébraïques op. 86
written by Darius Milhaud |
performed by Nell Tangeman |
unspecified music by Chanler
written by Theodore Chanler |
performed by Nell Tangeman |
unspecified music by Fauré
written by Fauré |
performed by Nell Tangeman |
unspecified music by Mahler
written by Gustav Mahler |
performed by Nell Tangeman |
Experience Information
Date/Time | between 1930 and 1960 |
Medium | broadcast, live, playback |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors, outdoors, in public, solitary |
Originally submitted by iepearson on Thu, 08 Jan 2015 21:48:23 +0000
Approved on Sun, 20 Dec 2015 11:30:28 +0000