Ned Rorem - Piano Sonata No.1
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- Composer: Ned Rorem (23 October 1923-)
Work Title: Piano Sonata No.1
Performer: Thomas Lanners (piano)
0:01 - I
4:34 - II. Adagio (Theme and Variations)
10:29 - III. Toccata: Clear, fast, and hard
Ned Rorem is an American composer and diarist. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1976 for his Air Music: Ten Etudes for Orchestra.
Rorem was born in Richmond, Indiana in 1923 as the son and second child of Clarence Rufus Rorem (1894-1988) and his wife, the former Gladys W. Miller, born in Illinois. They met and married in South Dakota in 1920, where Rufus Rorem was working for Goodyear Rubber. Ned Rorem had an older sister Rosemary.
Their paternal grandfather, Ole John Rorem, was an immigrant from Norway; their paternal grandmother, the former Sinnie Thompson, was born in Iowa, as their father was.
Rorem's father was a medical economist and worked for the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care in Washington, DC. His ideas and 1930 study contributed to the development of the later combined Blue Cross and Blue Shield medical insurance plans. The family moved to Chicago, where by 1942 the father worked for the American Hospital Association. Rorem showed an early interest in and talent for music. He received his early education at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and the American Conservatory of Music. He studied at Northwestern University before attending the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and the Juilliard School in New York City. Rorem was raised as a Quaker and refers to this in interviews in relation to his piece A Quaker Reader, which is based on Quaker texts.
In 1966 he published The Paris Diary of Ned Rorem, which - together with his later diaries - has brought him some notoriety. He is open about his and other men's sexuality, describing his relationships with Leonard Bernstein, Noël Coward, Samuel Barber, and Virgil Thomson, and outing several others. Rorem also had a short affair with writer John Cheever.
Rorem has written extensively about music as well. These essays are collected in the anthologies Setting the Tone, Music from the Inside Out, and Music and People. His prose is much admired, not least for its barbed observations about such prominent musicians as composer and conductor Pierre Boulez. Rorem has composed in a chromatic tonal idiom throughout his career, and he is not hesitant to attack the orthodoxies of the avant-garde.
His notable students include Jonathan Bailey Holland, Daron Hagen, and David Horne.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Rorem
Source videos:
1st movement: • Ned Rorem - Piano Sona...
2nd movement: • Ned Rorem - Piano Sona...
3rd movement: • Ned Rorem - Piano Sona... - Hudba
0:01 - I
4:34 - II. Adagio (Theme and Variations)
10:29 - III. Toccata: Clear, fast, and hard
I hear a compositional structure more similar to French Renaissance. Clearly, it is more about the interplay of the voices and than it is about harmony. I love the interplay of 4ths and seconds.
🤔 I don't think I'll be playing this anytime soon. WOW! My late voice teacher Soprano Chloe Owen spoke very highly of Mr. Rorem
This is an excellent performance and first quality recording of a distinctly beautiful composition. Thank you!
Thank snowfjn, who made the source videos which I simply merged here, links in the video description.
That motif at 0:40 sounds so familiar! Frank Bridge maybe?
Fantastic piece.
very familiar to me too but can’t remember from what
Nice upload!
Thanks!
oh!
2:59
Rorem died last month November 18th :(
Interesting. I hear here Bach, jazz.
Very interesting. Do we have a composition date for this?
Currently no.
Around 1947, when Rorem was 24.
@@rondoin7225 Many thanks.
Here because of xem , not disappointed
Who xem
@@greatmallard9318 the speedrunner
Somehow it never allows one to emotionally invest in it. I do believe what I consider a fault was at the time of composition considered a virtue. So be it for those who write music based on trends.
Actually, your quite wrong. The easy listening music of the court was the trend during Mozart's time. The simplicity of harmony, trending during Bach's era was pretty much ignored by the master who faced criticism.
In Ned Rorem's case the trend was to avoid melody at all cost. Aaron Copland reversed the trend for a while seeking clarity.
It sounds like a fairly fresh and original voice not a trend.
To be quite honest, although I'm not much a fan of the piece myself, I think the biggest fault is at the interpreter. If it was played softer and less bang-y, it'd likely sound like an entirely different piece.
Your emotional response to music never has anything to do with the music itself, it's all just made up in your head
This person is a troll, just ignore them -> @@Whatismusic123
Just random noise
"Random" has a precise, mathematical definition and it certainly does not apply to music.
@@themobiusfunction the mathematical definition of random does not apply to a great majority of the word's use in other fields
@@Whatismusic123 the word "random" does not apply to music (except when it is generated through a mathematically random process)
@@Whatismusic123
Its like Ravel or a good work by Dukas, except with none of their emotional power - which music is all about. I swear I heard a melody at around 5:40 for a couple of bars. Then again at 8:00 for a few seconds. Otherwise its like he'll do anything to deliberately avoid being musical. Like a rapper pretending to be from the projects. Its way too try-hard.