Ned Rorem in Manhattan - in the middle of 1947
from The New York Diary: Pennsylvania and New York Autumn, 1958, page 362:
Mary's Bar on Eighth Street. It is already eleven summers ago that John Myers and Frank Etherton worked there, whining the tunes that Paul Goodman and I composed for them: Bawling Blues, Jail-Bait Blues, Near Closing Time. Occasionally, for comic relief, Eugene Istomin would play Ondine on the tuneless piano and the drunks would actually stop talking.
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Ned Rorem, The New York Diary: Pennsylvania and New York Autumn, 1958. In The Paris Diary and The New York Diary 1951-1961 (New York, 1998), p. 362. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1398281937193 accessed: 14 May, 2024
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'Ondine' from 'Gaspard de la nuit'
written by Maurice Ravel |
performed by Eugene Istomin |
songs
written by Ned Rorem, Paul Whiteman |
performed by Frank Etherton, John Myers |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | in the middle of 1947 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Originally submitted by iepearson on Wed, 23 Apr 2014 20:38:57 +0100