Ned Rorem

Biography by Jeremy Grimshaw

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Rorem is a key American composer of art song in addition to making substantial contributions to all classical music genres except electronics.
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Composition Highlights

Title	Year	Avg. Duration	Genre
War Scenes, cycle of 5 songs from Whitman for voice & piano	1969	13:13	Vocal Music
Poems of Love and the Rain, song cycle for mezzo-soprano & piano	1962	24:54	Vocal Music
The Serpent, for voice & piano (from "Three Poems of Theodore Roethke")	1972	01:50	Vocal Music
Eagles, for orchestra	1958	08:32	Orchestral
Little Elegy, for voice & piano	1949	01:25	Vocal Music
I Am Rose, for voice & piano	1955	00:25	Vocal Music
Far-Far-Away, for voice & piano (from "Poems of Tennyson")	1963	01:53	Vocal Music
For Poulenc, for voice & piano	1963	02:46	Vocal Music
Shout the Glad Tidings, for chorus (from "Choruses (3) for Christmas")	1978	00:52	Choral
Early in the Morning, for voice & piano	1955	01:58	Vocal Music
Miss Julie, opera	1965	01:25:36	Opera
Alleluia, song for voice & piano	1946	02:42	Vocal Music
Now sleeps the crimson petal, for voice & piano (from "Poems of Tennyson")	1963	03:44	Vocal Music
Nantucket Songs, song cycle for voice & piano	1978	06:44	Vocal Music
O you whom I often and silently come, for voice & piano (from "Poems of Walt Whitman")	1957	00:33	Vocal Music
Sing, My Soul, His Wondrous Love, for chorus & organ	1955	02:24	Choral
Some Trees, poems (3) for soprano, mezzo-soprano, bass-baritone & piano	1968	10:41	Vocal Music
The Lordly Hudson, for voice & piano (from "Poems of Paul Goodman")	1947	02:23	Vocal Music
Ariel, cycle of 5 poems of Sylvia Plath for soprano, clarinet & piano	1971	17:03	Vocal Music
A Journey, for voice & piano	1974	01:26	Vocal Music