by Ned Rorem
Williams, David McK., 291
Williams, Gluyas, 170
Williams, Tennessee, 146, 181, 192, 249, 308, 317, 335, 376, 383, 384–85, 583
Willingham, Calder, 244
Wimple, Jay, 62
Winters, Shelley, 578
Witter, Dean, 533
Wolf, Hugo, 382
Wolff, Catherine, 342
Wood, Audrey, 429–30
Woodward, Ethel, 538
Wright, Richard, 258, 392
Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 243
Wylie, Elinor, 258, 487
Yeats, William Butler, 124–25, 559
“You, the Young Rainbow of My Tears,” 351–52
Youth Orchestra, 209–10, 226
“Youth with the Red-Gold Hair, The,” 351–352, 471
Zadkine, Ossip, 214
Zeller, Robert, 301, 326
Zimbalist, Efrem, 189, 243
Zola, Emile, 551
Zorina (Brigitta Lieberson), 126–27
About the Author
Ned Rorem is one of the most accomplished and prolific composers of art songs in the world. Drawing on a wide range of poetry and prose as inspiration, his sources have included works by Walt Whitman, W. H. Auden, Paul Goodman, Frank O’Hara, Gertrude Stein, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, and Paul Monette. In 1976, Rorem received the Pulitzer Prize in Music for his orchestral work Air Music. His prodigious literary accomplishments include the publication of thirteen books, nine of which were released as ebooks by Open Road Media in the summer of 2013. Rorem lives in New York City.
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The letters of Marc Blitzstein, previously published in The Yale Review, vol. 81, #3, July 1993, are published here with the permission of the estate of Marc Blitzstein.
An excerpt from Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel by Truman Capote, Copyright © 1976 by Truman Capote, is reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.
“Freud” by Paul Goodman, from Collected Poems, is used by permission of Sally Goodman.
The lines of verse on p. 306, from Collected Poems by Paul Goodman, are used by permission of Sally Goodman.
“Near Closing Time” by Paul Goodman is used by permission of Sally Goodman.
Copyright © 1994 by Ned Rorem
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