The Later Diaries Of Ned Rorem 1961-1972

Ned Rorem is celebrated as one of America's greatest living composers. His diary of his early years,The Paris Diary and the New York Diary, was widely acclaimed.The Later Diariescontinues one of the most sustained efforts in the intimate journal form ever undertaken and offers candid insights into his astonishing life, career, art, friendships, and love. In these years,Lions, Miss Julie,andPoems of Love and the Rainwere composed and most of his books written; he also continued to meet the famous and infamous and to write of them with the charm that Janet Flanner characterized as "worldly, intelligent, licentious, highly indiscreet."

Ned Rorem has created a body of work that includes four symphonies, four piano concertos, nine operas, and fourteen books. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his orchestral suite Air Music. He divides his time between New York City and Nantucket.