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Composer of the Week: Ned Rorem

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Virgil Thompson said that Ned Rorem 's work communicates "restraint, wit, elegance, and direct yet unsentimental expressivity". Rorem talks to Donald Macleod about these aspects of his work, and about the poets whose words he sets. Clouds Susan Graham (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano) Eagles Louisville Orchestra, conductor Gerhardt Zimmermann
String Quartet No 4 Emerson Quartet Cor Anglais Concerto (excerpt)
Thomas Stacy , Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Michael Palmer
Psalm 142 (Cycle of Holy Songs)
Phyllis Curtin (soprano) accompanied on the piano by the Composer Repeated Wednesday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Virgil Thompson
Unknown:
Ned Rorem
Soprano:
Susan Graham
Piano:
Malcolm Martineau
Conductor:
Gerhardt Zimmermann
Unknown:
Thomas Stacy
Conductor:
Michael Palmer
Soprano:
Phyllis Curtin
Source: Radio Times

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