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Composer of the Week: Ned Rorem

on BBC Radio 3

Rorem is one of a group of composers who have fostered a unique American idiom in song. Donald Macleod concludes his series of conversations with Ned Rorem by considering some themes that recur frequently in the composer's work: the seasons, memory, the marking of time and the eternal.
Sonnet (Santa Fe Songs)
Susan Graham (mezzo), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Ensemble Oriol Rejoice We All in the Lord Harvard University Choir, conductor Murray Forbes Somerville Winter Pages (excerpt; Todd Palmer
(clarinet), Frank Morelli (bassoon), Ida Kavafian (violin), Fred Sherry (cello), Charles Wadsworth (piano)
Bright Music Fibonacci Sequence
Little Elegy Susan Graham (mezzo), Malcolm Martineau (piano) Repeated from Friday

Contributors

Song:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Ned Rorem
Songs:
Susan Graham
Piano:
Malcolm Martineau
Clarinet:
Todd Palmer
Clarinet:
Frank Morelli
Bassoon:
Ida Kavafian
Violin:
Fred Sherry
Piano:
Charles Wadsworth
Unknown:
Susan Graham
Piano:
Malcolm Martineau

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