by Ned Rorem
Loriod, Yvonne, 494, 503–4
Losch, Tilly, 211
Lost in Fear, 260
Louÿs, Pierre, 35, 89, 121
Lovett, Charles, 534, 535
Lowell, Amy, 72, 110, 180
Lowell, Robert, 521
“Lullaby of the Woman of the Mountain,” 488
Lutcher, Nellie, 359
Lyon, Margot, 395
Maar, Dora, 564, 566–67, 569
McCarthy, Mary, 458, 463
McCracken, Joan, 443
McCullers, Carson, 258, 442, 449
MacDowell Colony, 150, 514
McFarlane, Ann, 355–56
McGavin, Darren, 356
McGehee, Helen, 268
Machiz, Herbert, 383, 498
McIlhenny, Henry, 289
MacLeish, Norman, 102
Mac Low, Jackson, 236, 362, 364
MacMahon, Aline, 355
McPhee, Colin, 369
Madama Butterfly (Puccini), 78
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 465, 513
Magerstadt, Maggy, 108–9, 113, 125, 134, 141, 142, 152, 160, 194, 243, 254, 271, 278, 326, 353, 383
Mahler, Gustav, 76, 200, 222, 382, 438, 451, 454, 478
Malamud, Bernard, 320
Malina, Judith, 382
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 101, 491
Mallet-Stevens, Robert, 543
Malraux, André, 560
Mamba’s Daughters, 429–30
Mann, Golo, 258
Mann, Thomas, 101, 114, 135, 141, 142, 167, 199–200, 478
Manziarley, Marcelle de, 499–500
Marais, Jean, 526, 578, 583
Maraldo, Frances, 157, 158
Marcel, Gabriel, 504
Marc’Hadour, Yvon le, 435
Marchowsky, Marie, 260, 277
“Margaret, are you grieving,” 475
Margolies, Molly, 102, 162
Maritain, Jacques, 509
Markevich, Igor, 90–91, 210, 398, 540–41, 543, 546, 556, 573
Marlowe, Sylvia, 217, 375
Marot, Clément, 569
Marshall, Charity (niece), 14, 15, 19
Marshall, Christopher (nephew), 18, 22, 372, 375, 581
Marshall, John (brother-in-law), 350, 581
Marshall, Mary (niece), 16, 19, 23, 581
Marshall, Paul (nephew), 13–14, 16
Marshall, Per (nephew), 16, 18
Marshall, Rachel (niece), 19, 581
Marshall, Rosemary Rorem (sister), 13–19, 22–23, 27, 28, 31, 33–34, 35, 39, 40, 44, 45, 47–51, 53, 55, 60, 64–65, 67, 68, 70–75, 80, 83, 84, 87, 96, 104, 106, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115–17, 126, 127, 133, 136–37, 138, 142, 144, 191–92, 224, 246, 247–248, 350, 365, 367, 372, 385, 387, 426, 430, 581–82, 587
Martial Singher, 215
Martin, Andrew, 141, 159
Martin, David, 159, 243
Martin, Hatti, see Heiner, Hatti
Martinů, Bohuslav, 280, 292
Marty, Jean-Pierre, 494, 518
Martz, Alice, 155, 158, 164
Marx, Groucho, 187, 293
Marx, Josef, 236, 260
Masselos, William, 363, 427
Massenet, Jules, 186
Massine, Léonide, 97
Matta, Roberto, 353
Maugham, Somerset, 474, 476, 533
Maurain, Camille, 435
Mauriac, François, 509, 511, 518, 570, 582
Maurice, Jean-Claude, 392, 393, 394, 403–404, 414, 428, 429, 432, 433, 465, 468, 469, 470, 472, 474, 477, 501, 502
Maurice, Josette, 474
Maurice R. (NR’s lover), 150–52
Mauroc, Daniel, 469–70, 473, 474
Maxwell, Elsa, 570
Mazia, Margery, 241
Mazure, Ralph H., 68, 69
Meeker, Ralph, 140–41
Meeting in the Lobby, A, 311–12
Mégret, Christian, 555–56, 575–76
Mélos, 525, 559, 578
Melville, Herman, 244, 245, 262–63, 338, 376
Melville, Jean-Pierre, 402
Menasce, Jacques de, 229
Mendelssohn, Felix, 468, 489
Mengelberg, Willem, 510
Mennin, Peter, 386
Menotti, Gian Carlo, 167, 178–79, 189, 192, 193, 200, 208, 249, 289, 297, 308, 455, 512, 570
Mercer, Mabel, 253
Mercury Music Press, 479
Messaoud (servant), 418, 419, 422, 426, 490, 560
Messiaen, Olivier, 37, 130, 155, 271, 328, 344, 371, 399, 413, 493, 504, 516
Micheau, Janine, 478
Milhaud, Darius, 25, 78, 115, 155, 198, 210, 254, 345, 361, 392, 406, 431, 454, 478, 582–83
Milhaud, Madeleine, 263, 582–83
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 37, 90, 157, 327
Miller, Al (uncle), 33, 79
Miller, Arthur, 269
Miller, Gladys Winifred (mother), see Rorem, Gladys Miller
Miller, Glenn, 132
Miller, Henry, 254
Miller, John (cousin), 33, 79
Miller, Margery Beattie (grandmother), 27, 37, 38, 45–46, 68–69, 84
Miller, Midgie (aunt), 142
Miller, Mildred (aunt), 33, 79
Miller, Rev. A. C. (grandfather), 27, 37–38, 68
Miller, Robert (uncle), 27, 38
Milne, A. A., 35
Minoret, Bernard, 538
Mishima, Yukio, 448
Misia, 548, 558
Miss Julie, 301, 322, 533
Mistinguett, 552
Mitford, Jessica, 549
Mitford, Nancy, 547–51, 555, 566
Mitropoulos, Dimitri, 21, 261
Modern Music, 149, 210
Mompou, Frederic, 106, 583
“Mongolian Idiot,” 338, 363
Monk, Julius, 368
Monteverdi, Claudio, 139, 173, 260, 321, 345, 466, 472
Moore, Douglas, 208, 253, 373, 382
Moore, Marianne, 327
Morel, Madame, 517, 520, 553
Morgenstern, Sam, 291–92
Morgenthau, Alma, 210–11
Moross, Jerome, 239, 253
Moss, Arnold, 263
Moss, Howard, 301, 338–40, 341, 369, 384, 465
Mourning Scene, 336, 338
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 54, 81, 106, 107, 112, 116, 133, 209, 216, 325, 363, 364, 383, 504
Murphy, Jack, 455–56
Musical America, 436
“Music for the Voice by Americans,” 316
Music Library Association, 338, 376
Music Press, 251
Mussorgsky, Modest, 586
Myers, John, 160, 254–55, 267, 305, 353, 383, 583
Nabokov, Nicholas, 210, 284
Nash, Kathryn (cousin), 37, 38, 55, 112, 131
Nash, Lois (cousin), 37, 38, 112, 154
Nash, Margery, (cousin), 37, 38, 67, 72
Nash, Pearl Miller (aunt), 37, 38
Nash, Ralph (cousin), 37, 38, 44
Nash, Richard (cousin), 37, 38, 44
Nash, Robert (cousin), 37, 38
Nazimova, Alla, 55
“Near Closing Time,” 309
Négroux, Richard, 478
Nell, Tom, 108
Neveu, Ginette, 464
Neway, Patricia, 283, 297, 455, 570
New Friends of Music, 283
Newlin, Dika, 229
New Republic, 383
New York City Symphony, 314
New Yorker, 339, 340, 445
New York Herald-Tribune, 207–8, 210, 217, 218, 227, 345, 386–87, 484
New York Philharmonic, 90, 167, 185, 192, 209, 225, 234, 350, 432
New York Post, 446
New York Sun, 386
New York Times, 20–21, 207, 233, 319, 385, 387, 449
“Nightingale, The,” 575
Nijinsky, Kyra, 540
Nijinsky, Romola, 63, 96
Nijinsky, Vaslav, 36, 60, 137
Nimier, Roger, 520
Nin, Anaïs, 361, 382
Nin-Culmell, Joaquín, 291
Noailles, Anna de, 28,
237
Noailles, Laure de, 538, 539, 541
Noailles, Natalie de, 538, 539, 541
Noailles, Vicomte Charles de, 477, 512, 532, 538, 539–40, 543, 553–54, 556, 558, 560, 574, 575
Noailles, Vicomtesse Marie-Laure de, 59, 87, 162, 180, 267, 283, 310, 317, 337–338, 398, 400, 403, 404, 405, 407, 432, 442, 444, 447, 448, 463, 471, 476–77, 497, 502, 512, 521, 525, 526, 527–28, 529, 531–32, 533–35, 536–558, 560–61, 564–78, 582–83
Noël, Jean de, 570
Noguchi, Isamu, 265, 266, 546
Nolte, Albert, 139, 342
Nordoff, Paul, 239
Norse, Harold, 348, 369, 381–82
Northwestern University, 107, 135, 138–142, 144, 154–58, 160, 162, 165, 171, 173, 216, 342, 375, 478, 522
Nureyev, Rudolf, 268
“Nursery Pavane, A,” 457
Oakes, Leslie, 226, 353
O’Brien, Fern, 468
O’Brien, Ken, 468
O’Donnell, Mae, 245, 266, 301
“O Do Not Love Too Long,” 559
Ohana, Maurice, 464
O’Hara, Frank, 254, 305, 339, 340, 382, 445, 461–62, 496, 567, 573, 583
Olivier, Laurence, 136
Olsen, Robert, 368, 464
“On a Singing Girl,” 258–59
O’Neil, Perry, 63, 71, 96–99, 106–7, 109, 120, 134, 155, 436, 583
O’Neill, Eugene, 71
Oppenheim, David, 175, 183, 463
Orchèstre de la Radiodiffusion Française, 502, 571
Ormandy, Eugene, 167, 199, 217
Orwell, George, 462
Orwell, Sonia, 462–63, 496, 520–21
Osato, Frances, 96, 97–98, 166, 258, 277, 366, 423
Osato, Shoji, 96, 97, 98
Osato, Sono, 96, 97, 98, 258
Osato, Teru, 97, 98, 115, 258, 259, 277, 327
Osato, Tim, 98
Ossorio, Alfonso, 301, 302, 331, 351, 363, 380, 528
Oswald, Marianne, 498, 518
Out of the Depths, 338
Overton, Hall, 158
Overture for GIs, 236
Overture in C, 350, 385–86
Pabst, George, 395
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan, 54
Page, Geraldine, 445
Ruth Page Company, 239
Palewski, Gaston, 547, 555
Paley, Grace, 70
Palmgren, Selim, 133
Panic in Needle Park (film), 169
Paredes, Jose, 146, 147, 151
Paris Diary, The, 219, 267, 285, 294, 310, 382, 398–99, 447–48, 488, 496, 531, 551, 569, 572
Paris-Match, 451, 512, 526, 528
Paris Opéra, 531
Parker, Cathleen, 371
Pascal, Blaise, 516–17
Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 313, 355
Pastor, Freda, 171
Pastorale, 439
Pastré, Lily, 532–33, 535, 569
Pauck, Wilhelm, 53
Paul, Elliott, 510
Peacock, Mrs. Mary, 15, 17, 18–19
Pears, Peter, 258, 307, 499
Pearse, Padriac, 488
Peer-Southern, 351, 439, 488
Péguy, Charles-Pierre, 25
Penny Arcade, 348, 349, 379, 381–82, 386, 387, 404, 569
Pepin, Clermont, 167
Perischetti, Vincent, 288
Perkins, Francis, 386
Perkins, Helvetia, 149
Perle, George, 102, 133, 185, 195, 262, 263–264, 265, 301, 328
Perle, Shirley, see Gabis, Shirley
Perlemuter, Vlado, 435
Perlis, Vivian, 279
Perlman, Itzhak, 130
Peron, Eva, 399
Perse, Saint-Jean, 268
Perugia, Noémie, 519
Peters, C. F., 419, 427
Petit, Roland, 405, 529, 542
Peyroux, Ghislaine de, 533
Phemister, Bruce, 31, 60–63, 78, 80, 90, 107, 119, 127, 157, 225–26, 271, 437, 499
“Philomel,” 488
Phipps, Elaine, 570, 571
Piaf, Edith, 123, 464, 491, 518, 534
Piano Concerto No. 1, 488, 502
Piano Concerto No. 2, 502, 572
Piano Sonata for Four Hands, 179, 181, 226, 387
Piano Sonata No. 1, 350, 370, 427
Piano Sonata No. 2, 99, 419, 427, 428–29, 436, 459, 471, 476, 495, 506, 510, 528
Piastro, Michel, 350, 385, 386
Piatagorsky, Gregor, 171, 495
Picasso, Pablo, 94, 141, 331, 467, 485, 563, 564, 566, 567, 568, 571–72, 573, 574
Pichon, Pierre, 434, 472
Pickens, Mrs. (piano teacher), 48
Picnic on the Marne, 565
Pilgrims for Strings, 100, 514–15
Pinkham, Daniel, 292, 296–97, 306, 309, 329, 352, 361, 407
Piscator, Erwin, 353
Piscator, Maria, 353
Piston, Walter, 296
Pitt-Rivers, Augustus, 463
Plante, David, 463
Plath, Sylvia, 540
Plato, 212
Podhoretz, Norman, 180
Poe, Edgar Allan, 158
Poems of Love and the Rain, 249
“Poetry of Music, The,” 513
Poets’ Requiem, The, 498
Poets’ Theater, 352–54
Polignac, Comte Jean de, 475
Polignac, Comtesse Marie-Blanche de, 173–74, 283, 284, 472, 474, 475–76, 511, 512, 519, 528, 535, 546
Polignac, Ghislaine de, 555
Polignac, Princesse de (née Winaretta Singer), 475–76
Porter, Andrew, 383
Porter, Cole, 119, 123, 541, 547
Portrait of a Young Girl, 236
Posner, David, 533
Potter, Beatrix, 35
Poulenc, Francis, 103, 133, 135, 173, 202, 210, 211, 254, 257, 263, 281, 284, 293, 298, 306, 307, 310, 315, 317–18, 320–21, 322, 337, 361, 382, 387, 403, 405–9, 421, 431, 438, 465, 472, 473, 476, 481, 482, 488, 493, 496, 504, 524, 530, 532, 552, 567, 569–70, 572, 580, 581, 583, 586
Pound, Ezra, 110, 304, 498
Powell, Robert, 268
Pratt, Davis, 159
Prayer, 181
Prayer and Paraphrase, 259–60, 273
Prayer of David, 327
Préger, Leo, 472, 473, 525–26, 569
Prelude and Adagio, 224, 232
Prentiss, Tom, 353–54
Pressac, Jacques de, 497
Presser, Theodore, 251, 479
Price, Leontyne, 307
Prix de Biarritz, 473, 525–26, 533
Prokofiev, Sergey, 198, 240, 535
Prokosch, Frederick, 236, 294, 307
Proust, Marcel, 22, 25, 27, 76, 142, 236, 244, 363, 411, 432, 448, 538, 541, 551
Pryor, Moody, 139
“Psalm of Praise, A,” 101, 259, 263, 440
Puccini, Giacomo, 182, 183, 321, 363
Pulitzer Prize, 265, 291, 310, 448, 571
Purcell, Jean, 457
Purdy, James, 126–27
Pure Contraption, 383
Quakers, Quakerism, 27, 36, 49, 60, 104, 131, 141, 161, 237, 366, 393, 472
Quiet Afternoon, A, 350
Rachmaninoff, Sergey, 54, 99, 103, 158, 160
Racine, Jean, 209
Rader, Dotson, 383
Radiguet, Raymond, 263, 509
Rainer, Luise, 372
Rainier, prince of Monaco, 466, 467, 512, 553
“Rain in Spring,” 403
Ramey, Philip, 311
Rampal, Jean-Pierre, 545–46
Ramus, Anna Louise de, 140
Rand, Sally, 58–59
Ravel, Maurice, 22, 54, 63, 78, 89, 99, 107, 116, 133, 139, 141, 144, 151–52, 155, 156, 159, 164, 169, 171, 176, 186, 215, 217, 251, 275, 279, 281, 298, 303, 305, 319, 341, 364, 374, 376, 413, 421, 438, 465, 493, 518, 532, 557–58
Ray, Juliet, 565
Ray, Man, 222, 225, 254, 544, 564–65
Re, Heddy de, 310
“Real Musics of Morocco, The,” 436
Rebikov, Vladimir, 322
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“Reconciliation,” 260, 263
Rédé, Alexei de, 555–56, 569
Redlich, Géorg, 93, 102, 109–10, 113, 116, 128–29, 132, 143, 144, 146, 147, 148, 152, 153, 174, 224, 276, 371, 421
Redlich, Josephine Ubry, 143, 147, 152, 153
Reed, Susan, 252
Reger, Max, 167
Reich, John, 355
Reich, Steve, 228
Reich, Wilhelm, 302, 364
Reid, Nancy, 369
Reinecke, Carl, 133
Reiner, Fritz, 261
Reis, Claire, 201–11
Remembering Tommy, 571
Rémy, François, 452, 491, 506
Rémy, Hélène, 452, 491, 506
Renard, Jules, 465
Renault, Madeleine, 431
“Requiem,” 350
Resnik, Regina, 336
Respighi, Ottorino, 167
Rexroth, Kenneth, 373
Richardson, Larry, 198
Richardson, Miss (teacher), 48, 52, 89–90
Rieti, Vittorio, 210, 419
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 298, 307
Rimbaud, Arthur, 103, 175, 210, 363, 365, 393, 431, 552
Ring, Miss (father’s secretary), 50, 117, 199, 587
Rippy, Frazier, 108–9
Ritman, Bill, 546
Rivers, Larry, 382–83, 573
Rivola, Flora, 81
Rivola, Glenys, 81
Robbers, The, 316
Robbins, Jerome, 326, 529, 565, 575, 576–579, 582
Robertson, Donald (Didi), 112, 114
Robertson, Milton, 260
Rochberg, George, 373
Roditi, Edouard, 110, 113, 254, 353
Rodzinski, Artur, 192, 209, 261
Roethke, Theodore, 317, 540
Rogers, Bernard, 336
Rogers, Ginger, 187
Rollins, Leighton, 355
Romain, Claude, 436, 527
Romance, Viviane, 364
Romano, Tony, 290–91, 330
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 80
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 49, 81–82, 133, 241, 263, 303
Rorem, Clarence Rufus (father), 13–17, 18–23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 31, 32–35, 37–40, 41, 44, 45–47, 49–51, 53–56, 60, 63, 65, 67, 69–73, 75, 79, 80, 84, 85, 86, 93, 96, 100, 102, 104, 110, 113, 117, 120, 122, 125, 126, 127, 129, 132, 134, 135, 138, 141, 144, 145–52, 153, 159, 161, 162, 165, 167, 180, 193, 198, 199, 202, 216, 220, 223–24, 226, 230, 237, 248, 256, 274, 275, 276, 287, 289, 290, 298, 332, 338, 340, 342, 343, 345, 350, 352, 365, 368, 375, 430, 433, 435, 437, 490, 506, 507, 561, 573, 587
Rorem, Elizabeth (Jon’s second wife), 26, 73, 74
Rorem, Gladys Miller (mother), 13–17, 19, 20, 21–23, 25–27, 28, 29, 31, 32–35, 37, 40, 41, 44–51, 53, 55, 60, 62, 64–65, 66–76, 79, 80, 84–86, 96, 102, 104, 106, 122, 125, 126, 129, 132, 138, 141–42, 144, 148, 159, 161, 167, 180, 224, 256, 274, 275, 276, 287, 289, 298–99, 329, 331, 332, 342, 343, 345, 350, 367, 368, 372, 373, 387, 420, 430, 437, 456, 490, 496, 503, 504, 507, 549, 573, 587
Rorem, Ned, 563
analysis undergone by, 342–43, 344, 349, 360, 362, 363, 365–67, 373–76, 517 (see also Kraft, Erich)
