Ned Rorem

Biography by Jeremy Grimshaw

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	Genre
War Scenes, cycle of 5 songs from Whitman for voice & piano	1969	Vocal Music
The Serpent, for voice & piano (from "Three Poems of Theodore Roethke")	1972	Vocal Music
Poems of Love and the Rain, song cycle for mezzo-soprano & piano	1962	Vocal Music
Poems of Walt Whitman, for voice & piano		Vocal Music
Rain in spring, for voice & piano (from "Poems of Paul Goodman")	1949	Vocal Music
Eagles, for orchestra	1958	Orchestral
Air Music, variations (10) for orchestra	1974	Orchestral
Early in the Morning, for voice & piano	1955	Vocal Music
Alleluia, song for voice & piano	1946	Vocal Music
The Santa Fe Songs, song cycle of 12 poems of Witter Bynner for medium voice, violin, viola, cello & piano	1980	Vocal Music
Letters from Paris, for chorus & small orchestra	1966	Choral
Nantucket Songs, song cycle for voice & piano	1978	Vocal Music
O you whom I often and silently come, for voice & piano (from "Poems of Walt Whitman")	1957	Vocal Music
Little Elegy, for voice & piano	1949	Vocal Music
Violin Concerto	1985	Concerto
Sing, My Soul, His Wondrous Love, for chorus & organ	1955	Choral
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, for voice & piano		Vocal Music
In Time of Pestilence, for chorus	1973	Choral
Piano Sonata No. 2	1949	Keyboard
String Quartet No.4	1994	Chamber Music