Ned Rorem in Nantucket - 3 January, 1987

from Lies: A Diary 1986-1999, page 60:

Stratas's new recording of Weill songs. Worries the tunes to death with expressivity. Why can't these people just sing?
cite as

Ned Rorem, Lies: A Diary 1986-1999 (New York, 2002), p. 60. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1436391983371 accessed: 5 October, 2024

location of experience: Nantucket

Listeners

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

Listening to

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music by Kurt Weill
written by Kurt Weill
performed by Teresa Stratas

Experience Information

Date/Time 3 January, 1987
Medium playback
Listening Environment in private, indoors, solitary

Originally submitted by pashworth on Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:46:24 +0100
Approved on Mon, 01 Feb 2016 23:34:46 +0000