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Knowing When to Stop

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by Ned Rorem


  Shirley Gabis and NR, 53 rue de la Harpe, 1945.

  Samuel Barber

  Jennie Tourel and NR, Venice, 1951.

  Georges Auric and NR, Hyères, 1953.

  Jean Marais and NR, on Marais’s houseboat, 1952.

  Janet Flanner and NR, 1972.

  NR and Phyllis Curtin.

  NR, Paris.

  Ned Rorem, March 31, 1958.

  November, 2001.

  April, 1987.

  Ned Rorem, 1950.

  INDEX

  (Page numbers in italic refer to illustrations.)

  Abel, Lionel, 353

  Abercrombie, Gertrude, 102

  Abram, Jacques, 493, 529

  “Absalom,” 259

  Acton, Harold, 233

  Adam, Adolphe, 489

  Adler, Ellen, 266, 463, 578

  Adler, Larry, 494

  Adler, Stella, 266

  Aiken, Conrad, 111, 236

  Air Music, 571

  Ajemian, Maro, 428

  Albee, Edward, 192, 340, 419–20, 437, 546, 568

  Albeneri Trio, 215

  Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 349, 356, 378

  Allanbrook, Douglas, 459, 473

  Allee, Mrs. (Sunday-school teacher), 55

  “Alleluia,” 250, 251, 256, 294, 338, 436

  “All in Green Went My Love Riding,” 156, 157

  Allotta, Remo (later Kenneth Remo), 170, 179, 287

  American Academy of Arts and Letters, 234, 446

  American Concert Orchestra, 134

  American Conservatory (Chicago), 120

  American National Theater and Academy (ANTA), 288, 355

  Ames, Elizabeth, 318, 319

  Ames, William, 229

  “Amor” (Monteverdi), 472

  Anderson, Laurie, 232

  Anderson, Marian, 64

  Anderson, Robert, 164, 225

  Anger, Kenneth, 501, 518

  “Anna la bonne” (Cocteau), 193, 498

  “Anniversary, The,” 259

  Another Sleep, 512–13, 559

  Answered Prayers (Capote), 447–48

  Antonini, Alfredo, 439

  Apollinaire, Guillaume, 135, 423, 430, 462, 478, 500, 552

  “Appeal,” 243

  Aragon, Louis, 135, 257

  Archibald, Bill, 450

  Arendt, Reid, 372

  “Are You the New Person,” 487

  Arioso, 226

  Arlen, Harold, 450

  Arletty, 404, 518

  Arnstein, Arnold, 208

  Arrau, Claudio, 159

  Ashbery, John, 339, 352, 540

  Associated Music Publishers, 263, 330

  Astaire, Fred, 187

  At Noon upon Two, 255

  Aubin, Tony, 571

  Auden, W. H., 82, 258, 285, 301, 304, 348, 445, 458, 498, 540, 574, 575, 583

  Auerbach, Alfred, 365

  Auric, Georges, 90–91, 188, 231, 254, 269, 284, 285, 403, 406–7, 461, 474, 501, 523–25, 526, 529, 530–32, 534, 535, 543, 547, 551, 553, 556, 567, 569

  Auric, Nora, 188, 452, 474, 497, 523–25, 526, 528–32, 534, 535, 543, 547–48, 551, 569, 577

  Austin, Richard, 520

  “L’automne,” 423

  Ave Maria, 122, 157

  Aymé, Marcel, 520

  Azevedo, Heitor de, 434, 478, 528

  Azevedo, Violetta de, 464, 478, 528

  Babbitt, Milton, 185, 195

  Bacall, Lauren, 241, 242

  Bacchat, Fernand (Noailleses’ chauffeur), 542, 543, 547, 574, 575

  Bach, Johann Sebastian, 107, 133, 155, 216, 232, 325, 402, 438, 449, 481, 489, 502

  Bacon, Ernest, 382

  Bacon, Francis, 114–15, 521

  Baily, Mildred, 78

  Baker, Josephine, 62, 78, 118, 392

  Balaban, Billy, 61

  Balanchine, George, 267

  Baldwin, James, 429–30, 433, 459

  Ballet for Jerry, 578

  Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, 96–97, 119, 529, 532

  “Bal Musette,” 565

  Balthus, 266, 564, 566

  Balzac, Honoré de, 142, 376, 541

  Banfield, Raffaello de, 400, 405, 410, 558, 569

  Bankhead, Tallulah, 130, 237, 446

  Barab, Seymour, 185, 195, 202, 248, 265, 288, 301, 324, 350, 355, 356, 360, 392, 482, 535

  Barber, Samuel, 156, 167, 178, 189, 190, 192, 208, 254, 258, 266, 282, 289, 296, 298, 306–11, 312–13, 323, 379, 382, 474, 478, 488, 521–22, 527, 570

  Barcarolles, 435, 471, 474, 476, 494

  Barker, Margaret (Beanie), 355–56, 377, 378

  Barnes, Djuna, 241, 408

  Barraud, Henri, 501

  Barrault, Jean-Louis, 431, 432, 546

  Barrie, Elaine, 125

  Barrymore, John, 125

  Barrymore, Lionel, 183

  Bartók, Béla, 141, 202, 262, 263, 271, 375, 441, 580

  Bartók, Dita, 141, 375

  Bate, Stanley, 369, 461, 463

  Bathori, Jane, 465

  Baudelaire, Charles, 104–5, 365, 392, 503

  “Bawling Blues,” 309

  Beardsley, Aubrey, 338

  Beaton, Cecil, 353, 423, 443

  Beattie, Dean, 135, 144

  Beauvoir, Simone de, 463

  Beckett, Samuel, 250, 532

  Beebe, Lucius, 138–39, 213, 253

  Beecham, Sir Thomas, 217

  Beeson, Jack, 485, 486

  Beethoven, Ludwig van, 25, 133, 155, 171, 173, 187, 193, 200, 233, 304, 336, 364, 377, 468, 472, 489, 504, 530

  Bell, Aaron, 362

  Beman, Roff, 102, 109

  Bemberg, George, 360–61, 379, 399, 478

  Bemberg, Philippe, 399–400, 434, 569

  Benga, 392–93, 397, 461, 469, 476

  Bérard, Christian (Bébé), 544–45

  Berenson, Bernard, 542, 548

  Berg, Alban, 185, 186, 278

  Bergen, Candice, 446

  Berger, Arthur, 218, 235, 346, 386–87, 486

  Berger, Esther, 443

  Bergner, Elizabeth, 342

  Berkeley, Lennox, 398, 520

  Berlioz, Hector, 24, 200, 466

  Bernac, Pierre, 187, 306, 307, 408, 472, 499, 535

  Bernatschke, Cathleen Parker, 371

  Bernhardt, Sarah, 26, 28

  Bernstein, Leonard, 174–85, 186, 190–94, 199, 225, 239, 249, 257, 262, 266, 280, 284, 293, 294, 296, 308, 313, 314, 315, 317–18, 322, 344, 345, 385, 475, 494, 495, 496, 576, 584

  Bernstein, Shirley, 494

  Bert, Lys (now Lys Symonette), 229

  Bertrand, Alyosius, 303

  Bertrand, Jean, 453, 464, 478, 549

  Bestigui, Charles, 575

  Bettis, Valerie, 268, 445, 463

  Bewley, Marius, 254

  Beydts, Louis, 478

  Biesel, Charlie, 102

  Biéville, Comte Anne de, 412

  Bigelow, Earl, 139, 157

  Biggs, E. Power, 199, 224

  Bishop, Elizabeth, 498, 540

  Blackwood, Lady Caroline, 521

  Blaisedell, Francis, 226

  Blake, William, 157, 230

  Bland, Frank, 369

  Blitzstein, Marc, 104, 156, 176, 253, 295–296, 312–23, 366, 373, 385, 467

  Bodenheim, Maxwell, 214

  Boergner, Philippe, 495

  Bogin, Abba, 169

  Bohm, Jerry, 218

  Bok, Mary Louise Curtis, 189

  Bollender, Todd, 499

  Bond, Carrie Jacobs, 307

  Bonds, Margaret, 62, 64, 78, 81, 198, 253, 486

  Bonelli, Richard, 170

  Bonfield, Ruth, 57

  Boosey & Hawkes, 352

  Borough, Art, 25

  Borough, Marie, 16, 25–26

  Borowski, Felix, 139

  Boston Symphony, 99, 293, 486

  Boulanger, Lili, 487

  Lili Boulanger Award, 398, 430, 436, 466

  Boulanger, Nadia, 90, 173–74, 198–99, 207, 282, 285, 296, 345, 371, 396–99, 400, 430, 434, 436, 457, 459, 46
5–66, 467, 472, 476, 494, 496, 500, 525–26, 528, 535, 540, 569

  Boulez, Pierre, 107, 185, 208, 254, 281, 283, 399, 427–28, 431, 432, 486, 504, 527, 528, 530–31, 538, 583–84

  Boultenhouse, Charles, 255, 256, 383

  Bourdet, Denise, 475

  Bourdet, Edouard, 104, 435

  Bourgeois, Jacques, 569

  Bousquet, Marie-Louise, 512, 519, 527, 528, 533

  Bowles, Jane, 148–49, 193, 197, 219, 257, 423–24, 425, 449, 460–62, 463, 472, 478, 496, 527, 583

  Bowles, Paul, 122, 148–49, 152, 176, 179, 192–94, 217, 218, 221–23, 225, 226, 238, 242, 243, 253–54, 256–59, 262, 315, 355, 369, 382, 402–3, 404, 411–412, 423–25, 426, 431, 436, 437, 443, 454–55, 460, 461, 491, 492, 518, 561, 576

  Boyle, Kay, 113, 139, 214

  Bradbury, Ray, 42–43

  Brahms, Johannes, 48, 63, 101, 167, 171, 199, 201–2, 267, 468, 489, 493

  Brando, Marlon, 429, 461

  Brecht, Bertolt, 313, 318

  Breton, André, 210, 254, 256

  Brico, Antonia, 99

  Briggs, Peter, 362

  Britten, Benjamin, 103, 258, 281, 293–94, 297, 298, 307, 321, 322, 328, 382

  Brod, Max, 115

  Brooks, Stella, 368, 370, 379

  Brown, Andreas, 446–47

  Brown, Harold, 234–35, 238, 369

  Browning, Robert, 77, 339, 572

  Bruckner, Anton, 25, 200

  Brunswick, Mark, 229

  Bucci, Marc, 429

  Buchanan, Briggs, 211

  Buffalo University, 148, 352, 533

  Buka, Donald, 355

  Bülow, Claus von, 573, 583

  Bunuel, Luis, 247, 571

  Burnap, Wilder, 543, 552, 553, 546–47

  “Burnt Ship, A,” 230, 287

  Burris, Miss (teacher), 90

  Busch ensemble, 173

  Bushkin, Joe, 343

  Cadmus, Paul, 368

  Caetani, Cora, 540, 541

  Caetani, Topazia, 540, 541

  Cage, John, 102, 207, 218, 227, 232–34, 254, 283, 353, 372, 428

  Cagli, Corrado, 353

  Cain and Abel, 260, 302, 333, 363

  “Call, The,” 423

  Callas, Maria, 130, 310, 355

  Callaway, Paul, 121, 122, 190, 191, 199, 260, 271, 328, 330

  Camus, Albert, 15, 254, 330, 378, 416, 505

  Capote, Truman, 160, 384–85, 392, 411, 424, 425, 430–31, 432, 436, 442–43, 445–50, 461

  Capp, Al, 463

  Carey, Miriam, 113, 116–17

  Carmen (Bizet), 100

  Carmen Jones, 230

  Carpenter, John Alden, 64, 81, 120, 179, 280

  Carter, Elliott, 169, 229, 283, 284, 322, 383, 522

  Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 519–20

  Casadesus family, 54

  Casa Fuerte, Yvonne de, 210, 211, 575

  Casals, Martita, see Istomin, Marta Casals

  Casals, Pablo, 155–56, 468

  Catholicism, 60, 107, 127, 132, 244

  Catullus, 171

  “Catullus: On the Burial of His Brother,” 338

  Cavanaugh, Inez, 459

  Cenci, Beatrice, 14

  Chadourne, Georgette, 527

  Chaney, Stewart, 343

  Chanler, Theodore, 361

  Chaplin, Charlie, 46, 84, 187, 500–501

  Charles-Roux, Edmonde, 403

  Chaucer, Geoffrey, 225, 316

  Chávez, Jorge, 146–47, 175, 176, 198, 265, 267

  Cheever, John, 131, 144, 308

  Chevalier, Maurice, 187

  Chicago Daily News, 125

  Chicago Musical College, 141, 158, 162

  Chicago Symphony, 119, 147

  Chicago world’s fair (1933), 58–59

  Childhood Miracle, A, 291, 336, 470, 506

  Chino, Bob, 115, 116, 142, 424

  Chopin, Frédéric, 63, 103, 141, 162, 167, 168, 184, 235, 325, 472, 481, 511, 512, 532, 569

  “Christmas Carol, A,” 575

  Christopher Street, 448–49

  Churchill, Wainright, 167, 178, 179

  Ciccolini, Aldo, 532

  Citkowitz, Israel, 521

  Clair, René, 524

  Clark, Tony, 369, 375

  Clarke, Gerald, 447

  Clèves, Princess de, 180, 405

  Clouzot, Henri-Georges, 434, 524

  Clurman, Harold, 282, 324

  Coates, Helen, 192, 257

  Cobb, Irvin S., 62

  Cock-a-doodle-doo, 378

  Cocteau, Jean, 13, 25, 42, 71, 87, 124, 132, 136, 162, 164, 193, 225, 235, 237, 269, 303, 315, 320, 366, 392–93, 397, 402, 404, 406, 410, 411, 412, 423, 435, 467, 473, 474, 477, 482, 496–97, 498, 501, 504, 505, 509, 518, 520, 524–29, 531, 537, 541, 545, 548, 556, 570, 571, 581, 582, 583

  Cohen, Grace, 292, 295, 301, 335, 338, 545

  Colbert, Claudette, 61

  Coleman, John, 499

  Colette, 25, 188, 341–42, 465

  Collegiate Chorale, 314

  Comden, Betty, 182

  “Comfort to a Youth That Had Lost His Love,” 479

  Compton-Burnett, Ivy, 486

  Concertino da camera, 329, 338

  Confrey, Zez, 81

  Conrad, Doda, 174, 466, 469, 472–73, 476, 478, 479, 494–95, 499, 500, 501, 528, 535, 559, 569

  Conrad, Joseph, 377

  Cook, Gerald, 81, 140, 198, 253, 499

  Coomara, Rohini, 474

  Cooper, Dale, 72, 73

  Cooper, Jackie, 46

  Cooper, Paul, 72, 73

  Copans, Simon, 459

  Copland, Aaron, 36, 133, 143, 147, 149, 152, 169, 176–77, 181–82, 183, 184, 193, 195, 198, 207, 211, 217, 228, 235, 261, 262, 265–66, 279, 279–85, 292–295, 297, 298, 304, 306, 313, 314, 315, 322, 324, 337, 340, 344, 346, 365, 373, 377, 382, 383, 385, 398–99, 428, 482, 486, 578

  Cornelius, Dick, 121

  Cornell, Allela, 261–62, 327, 355–56

  Cornman, Bobby, 493

  Coward, Noël, 183, 308, 339

  Cowell, Henry, 227

  Cowley, Malcolm, 337

  Craft, Robert, 235, 288, 383, 466

  Craighead, David, 167

  Crawford, Betty, 226–27, 234–35, 236, 238

  Crawford, Joan, 119, 582

  Critical Affairs, 446–47

  Croisset, Francis de, 538

  Croisset, Philippe de, 538

  Cuénod, Hugues, 174, 466, 575, 579

  Cuevas, Marquis de, 524, 525, 542–43

  Cummings, E. E., 156, 157, 214, 225, 317, 353, 407

  Cunningham, Merce, 232, 241

  Cunningham, Sarah, 292, 474–75

  Cuny, Alain, 458

  Curtin, Phyllis (Smith), 293, 294

  Curtis Institute of Music, 18, 55, 165, 166–202, 216, 220, 226, 230, 237, 243, 282, 289, 457

  Cycle of Holy Songs, 579

  Dali, Gala, 573

  Dali, Salvador, 256, 541, 556, 565, 573

  Dalton, Don, 109, 113, 122, 139, 183, 224

  Damase, Jean-Michel, 494, 528

  Daniel, Oliver, 344, 369

  D’Annunzio, Gabriele, 458, 465

  Danto, Arthur, 114–15

  Darley, George, 488

  Daudet, Alphonse, 557

  Davis, Bette, 163

  Davis, Christopher, 316

  Davis, George, 258

  Davis, Mrs. (piano teacher), 47

  “Dawn Angel,” 255

  Death of Bessie Smith, The (Albee), 420

  Death of the Black Knight, 351, 377, 378

  Debussy, Claude, 25, 54, 62–63, 81, 85, 98, 106, 125, 133, 137, 141, 142, 146, 155, 173, 186, 216, 223, 251, 263, 269, 281, 314, 322, 334, 342, 354, 364, 413, 421, 432, 458, 465, 466, 481, 487, 493, 533, 578

  De Diego, Julio, 371

  “De Don Juan,” 225, 229, 498

  Delius, Frederick, 107, 132, 170

  Dello Joio, Norman, 243

  Délorme, Danielle, 520

  Demarest, Paul, 464, 473

  De Mille, Agnes, 239, 247
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br />   Denby, Edwin, 248, 484, 486, 487

  DePencier, Mrs. (teacher), 61, 90

  Derenne, Paul, 173–74, 466

  Dermit, Doudou (Edouard), 497

  D’Ernancourt, Madame, 452, 453

  Desnos, Robert, 482

  Diaghilev, Sergei, 96, 403, 476, 524, 532–533, 540, 575, 581

  Diamond, David, 21, 261–63, 264, 271–272, 274, 292, 326, 330, 336, 342, 375, 382, 434, 487

  Dickinson, Emily, 283, 327

  Dietrich, Marlene, 63, 94, 119, 176, 368, 411, 444, 542

  Dillinger, John, 59

  Dinesen, Isak, 67, 72, 244

  Dobbs, Mattiwilda, 339

  “Doll’s Boy,” 225, 229

  Dominguez, Maud, 574

  Dominguez, Oscar, 542, 544, 561, 563–564, 567–58, 573–75, 576, 577

  Donne, John, 230, 287

  Door to Sorrow’s Chamber, The, 110

  Dorian Gray, 583

  Dos Passos, John, 132, 136

  Downes, Olin, 197, 207

  Dry Salvages, The (Eliot), 181

  Dubois, André, 527

  Du Bois, W. E. B., 70

  Dufourq, Norbert, 502

  Duncan, Todd, 295

  Dunham, Katherine, 64

  Dunphy, Jack, 443

  Dupont, Jacques, 410–11, 464–65, 475

  Durand, 141, 481

  Durand-Dassier, Jacques, 473

  Durey, Louis, 406

  Duval, Denise, 525, 569–70

  Eagles, 99–100, 322

  Earls, Bill, 110

  Early Voyagers, 445

  Eastman School of Music, 335–36, 350

  “Echo’s Song,” 350

  Edmunds, John, 423, 437, 520

  Edwards, Davis, 31, 56, 57, 58, 61, 72, 73, 117

  Edwards, Jean, 31, 56–60, 61, 71, 74, 80, 92

  Edwards, Jill, 56, 57, 61, 72, 73

  Effront, Nadine, 574

  Egleton, Leslie, 473–74

  Egress, 338, 359

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 242

  Eleven Studies for Eleven Instruments, 268–269

  Elgar, Sir Edward, 200

  Eliot, T. S., 180–81, 338, 553

  Elkan, Louise, 200

  Ellington, Duke, 78, 530

  Eluard, Dominique, 572–73

  Eluard, Nusch, 573

  Eluard, Paul, 135, 421, 538, 572–73, 585

  Embiricos, Perry, 256

  Embry, Norris, 92, 111–12, 113, 119, 150, 164, 198, 225, 252, 260, 302, 349, 376, 394, 396, 403–4, 409, 411, 432–33, 478, 499, 500, 560

  Engel, Lehman, 164, 318

  Engel, Paul, 338

  Erdman, Jean, 227

  Erlanger, Philippe, 89, 535

  Erlich, Paul, 198

  Ernst, Max, 353

  Esquire, 447

  Esteban, Alberto, 468

  Esty, Alice, 317

  Etherton, Frank, 160–61, 164, 246, 249, 257, 305, 359, 370, 372

 

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