Ned Rorem
from The Nantucket Diary of Ned Rorem 1973-1985, pages 324-325:
I'm just not a pederast, hating especially solo boy sopranos, with the result that certain otherwise respectable, even beautiful, works become off-limits, nothing but mean shrieks to my ears: Falla's El Retablo, for example or Bernstein's Chichester Psalms. If I can take Britten's Turn of the Screw, it's because the little boy therein is meant to be a monster; in Peter Grimes he never opens his mouth.
cite as
Ned Rorem, The Nantucket Diary of Ned Rorem 1973-1985, volume 2 (San Francisco, 1987), p. 324-325. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1435228749591 accessed: 28 November, 2024
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Chichester Psalms
written by Leonard Bernstein |
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El Retablo de Maese Pedro
written by Manuel de Falla |
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Peter Grimes
written by Benjamin Britten |
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The Turn of the Screw
written by Benjamin Britten |
Experience Information
Medium | broadcast, live, playback |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors, outdoors, in public, solitary |
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Originally submitted by pashworth on Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:39:09 +0100
Approved on Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:09:54 +0000