excerpt from 'The Nantucket Diary of Ned Rorem 1973-1985' pp. 533 (110 words)
excerpt from 'The Nantucket Diary of Ned Rorem 1973-1985' pp. 533 (110 words)
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The evening could have been just the right length. At the benefit for New Music for Young Ensembles at Merkin Hall we each fit neatly into out fifteen-minute slot; Honi Coles, irresistible as he tapped to jazz improvisations; Jamie and Sharon, flawless in Ravel's duo; Roz and I, perfect in seven of my songs. But then Marvin Hamlish, unprogrammed and unbidden (so far as I know), usurped the stage and, with charmless vulgarity, showed no sighs of leaving after half an hour. So I (now sitting in the hall next to Red Heller who whispered, "Who is that man?") got up and left, in full view of the captive audience. |
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