introduction by ned rorem (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine dust jacket. First Edition (so stated). Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2000. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Dust Jacket is not price clipped (30.00). No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh and crisp, probably never read. Bound in the original brown boards, with black spine. Gilt lettering is bright and shiny. Illustrated with 16 pages of photos. Index. "For 40 years, the diaries of Ned Rorem have been ideal bedtime reading for musicians. This first installment of the new century, covering 1986 to 1999, parades a few of Rorem's familiar themes: insomnia, self-contradictions, letters to the editor (some never sent, some never published), and, of course, notes on his own music (including an especially lovely commentary on the English Horn Concerto). There are some unexpected anecdotes as well, including one about dinner with Nancy Reagan, an appreciation of Frank O'Hara, and the chronicle of a long-running dispute with neighbor Itzhak Perlman's air conditioner (the air conditioner wins). Rorem appraises new music, slamming Boulez, Schnittke, and Bruce Springsteen (who share good company with Beethoven and Mother Teresa), but there is a sudden about-face on Rorem's former bête noire, Elliott Carter. This time, however, the tone is darker than before because death is all around. Rorem's parents, in separate wings of a nursing home, die within months of each other. And above all, the diary covers the long decline and death of partner Jim Holmes, who suffers from Crohn's disease, cancer, and HIV (he withholds his discovery that he's been carrying the virus from Rorem for several months). The final third of the diary, when Holmes's pills alone are described as costing $15,000 a year, is achingly sad, but somehow, Rorem avers, 'the purpose of a diary is to evade real life.' He thinks that 'nobody sings my songs anymore,' so it is to be hoped that he was heartened by Susan Graham's sensational Rorem anthology released in 2000, as well as his 2001 Grammy nomination for 'best contemporary classical composition' for the song cycle EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN. Rorem's prose, as ever, is delightful and instantly recognizable as his alone: 'there never was a Great Man in America, except maybe Martha Graham." -- William R. Braun. . First Edition (so stated). Hard Cover. Fine condition./Fine dust jacket. 8vo. xiii, 416pp. . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: fine. 1st. Bound in quarter cloth and paper covered boards with the spine stamped in gilt.

Hardcover. xiii, 416p. + 16p. photos, near-fine first edition stated in boards and bright unclipped dj.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author at preliminary blank. 9.5 x 6.5 in. xiii, 416 pp. with 28 b/w photographic illustrations. Quarter black and blush paper boards lettered in gilt at spine and front board. Bottom corners of front and rear boards lightly creased. Minor edge wear to jacket extremities. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, now in protective mylar cover. Inscribed by Author(s).