Ned Rorem in New York - 13 April, 1987
from Lies: A Diary 1986-1999, page 78:
JH, rehearsing with his chorus Messiaen's Sacrum Convivium for next Sunday's service, says: "Think of a reformed whore. She bakes in the light of the cross, but retains her old bangles." Then he requests that they whine on certain phrases. The singers were not amused.
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Ned Rorem, Lies: A Diary 1986-1999 (New York, 2002), p. 78. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1436396906448 accessed: 7 May, 2024
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Sacrum Convivium
written by Olivier Messiaen |
performed by James Holmes |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 13 April, 1987 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by pashworth on Thu, 09 Jul 2015 00:08:26 +0100
Approved on Mon, 01 Feb 2016 23:50:20 +0000