events

2010
  • October 8, 10 2010
    Our Town
    Opera Idaho
    Egyptian Theater, Boise Idaho
    Director David Cox; conductor Steven Crawford

  • August 23, 2010
    program includes NR songs
    Simon Keenlyside, baritone/Malcom Martineau, piano
    Queens Hall: Edinburgh, Scotland

  • May 16, 2010
    Music for Friends, A concert of Quaker Music; excerpts from NR's A Quaker Reader
    First United Methodist Church
    Birmingham, AL

  • May 15, 2010
    Sonata No. 3, Three Songs
    Live Music by Living Composers; benefit concert, The Leschetizky Association, Tenri Cultural Institute
    New York, NY

  • May 10, 2010
    Frankly Music with Frank Almond, Concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra selections from Day Music and Night Music, for violin and piano Wilson Center for the Arts, Brookfield WI

  • May 1, 2010
    Evidence of Things Not Seen
    4:00, pre-show discussion; 5:00 performance
    Gildenhorn Recital Hall
    University of Maryland, College park MD

  • April 22, 23, 24, 25, 2010
    Our Town
    University of Colorado, Boulder

  • March 12,and 13, 2010
    Our Town
    Willamette University, Salem, Oregon

  • March 14, 2010
    All Rorem program
    The Prince Consort
    Wigmore Hall, London UK

  • March 11, 2010, 8:00
    Art Song Forward: Unplugged
    songs by Ned Rorem and other composers
    Galapogos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
    http://www.galapagosartspace.com

  • February 11,12,13,14. 2010
    Our Town
    Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea , Ohio

  • February 21, 2010
    In Time of Pestilence
    Swedish Radio Choir/ Ragnar Bohlin
    Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor MI

  • February 19, 20, 21
    Frolic
    Houston Symphony/Hans Graf
    Jesse H. Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, Houston, Texas

  • February 6 ,8 ,9, 13, 14, 16, 17 2010
    Bertha - opera
    Opera Stabile, Hamburg State Opera
    Hamburg, Germany

  • January 31, 2010; 3:00 p.m.
    Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano
    Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
    427 Chestnut Street; Philadelphia, PA

  • January 28, 2010
    Night Music
    Juilliard School; Peter Jay Sharp Theater
    New York NY

  • January 17, 2010
    Violin Concerto
    Lina Sohn, violin / Boca Raton Philharmonic
    St. Andrews School, Boca Raton, Florida

2009
  • November 2009
    Our Town
    University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  • October 17,18,23,24,25 Ê2009
    Anna la Bonne (Premiere of new production)
    Christian Vetsch, director / Die Oper im Knopfloch / Denette Whitter
    Theater Stok, Zurich, Switzerland
    Kostume: Anna von Zerboni

  • October 25, 2009
    European Premiere
    Evidence of Things Not Seen The Prince Consort
    Oxford Lieder Festival, Oxford U.K.

  • September 27, 2009
    World Premiere
    Four Sonnets of Shakespeare
    Andrew Kennedy, tenor, Roger Vignoles, piano
    Wigmore Hall; London UK
    Concert starts at 4:00 pm

  • 29 June
    Lions (A Dream)
    Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra/ Christopher Seaman
    Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater, Vail CO

  • May 11, 2009
    11 Songs For Susan
    Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
    Carnegie Hall, NY, NY

  • May 11, 2009
    Three Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (world premiere)
    Zaidee Parkinson, piano/Jamie Van Eyck, mezzo-soprano
    Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York Ê

  • May 9, 2009
    11 Songs For Susan (World Premiere)
    Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano/Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
    Williams Center for the Arts, Easton PA

  • April 29, May 4, 2009
    Another Sleep
    Mitchell Galloway-Edgar, baritone/Katherine Svistoonoff, pianist
    Dudley Recital Hall; University of Houston, Houston Texas

  • April 23, 2009
    Our Town
    University of South Carolina / Ellen Douglas Schlaefer
    Longstreet Theater, Columbia, SC

  • April 7, 2009
    Pilgrims Project Divisi
    Zilkha hall, Houston Texas

  • April 3, 4, 5, 7 2009
    Our Town
    University of North Texas / Stephen Dubberly
    Lyric Theater at Murchison Performing Arts Center; Denton, Texas
  • February 12,13,14,15,16
    Our Town
    Tufts University Ensemble/ Carol Mastrodomenico, director
    Distler Hall, Tufts University, Medford MA

  • 15 January
    Mallet Concerto
    Evelyn Glennie, DBE, percussion
    String Concerto
    Wurttembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn/ Ruben Gazarian
    Forum am Schlosspark, Ludwigsburg, Germany

  • 14 January
    Mallet Concerto
    Evelyn Glennie, DBE, percussion / Wuttembergisches Kammerorchester
    String Concerto
    Wurttembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn/ Ruben Gazarian
    Theodor-Heuss-Saal/Harmonie, Heilbronn, Germany
2008
  • December 12, 2008
    Tribute to NR's 85th Birthday
    Flute Trio; A Quaker Reader
    Jeremy Haladyna, organ
    UC Santa Barbara, CA

  • December 11, 2008
    Happy Birthdays! Messain, Carter and Rorem
    Trio for Flute, cello and piano

    The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
    142 Throckmorton Theater, Mill Valley CA

  • November 14,15,16
    Our Town
    Raylynmor Opera Company
    Peterborough Players; Peterborough, NH

  • 14 November 8:00 PM
    World Premiere Two Shakespeare Poems
    Yale Glee Club; Jeffrey Douma, director
    Woolsey Hall, Yale University
    New Haven, CT

  • November 11, 2008
    Eleven Studies for Eleven Players
    University of Illinois Ensemble/ Donald Schleicher
    Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana IL

  • November 9, 2008
    Daniel Pearl: Harmony for Humanity
    War Scenes
    St. Marks in the Bowery
    131 East 10 Street, NY NY

  • November 1, 2008
    Songs Old and New (World Premiere)
    Mary Wilson, soprano; Iris Orchestra/ Michael Stern
    Germantown Performing Arts Center
    Germantown, TN

  • October 24, 2008
    A Ned Rorem Celebration; works for violin, cello, and piano
    The Phoenix Concerts
    The Church of St. Mathew and St. Timothy
    26 West 84 Street, New York NY

  • September 5
    8:00 pm
    Here and Now: American Contemporary Music Series- Celebrating the Music of Ned Rorem in Honor of his 85th Birthday
    Dances for Cello and Piano, String Quartet No. 2, Song and Dance for Piano, Bright Music
    Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn, New York

  • 24 August
    Design
    Cleveland Orchestra / Loras Schissel
    Severence Hall, Cleveland OH

  • 27, 29 June
    Our Town Civic Opera Theater of Kansas City / Andy Anderson
    Folley Theater, Kansas City, MO

  • 13, 15, 19, 21 June
    Our Town Skylark Opera / Steve Stucki
    Pearson Hall, Concordia University, Saint Paul, MN

  • June 9
    7:30 PM
    Premiere of A Little Fantasy for Cello and Piano
    20th Century Classics, 21st Century Premieres; Joshua Roman, cello; Evelyne Luest, piano
    Symphony Space, New York NY

  • 13 May/ 7:30 P.M.
    American Voices
    Saint Thomas Church Concert Series
    0ne West 53 Street, New York

  • 22 May
    Aftermath European premiere
    Event: On Love and War
    Thomas Meglioranza, baritone
    Wigmore Hall, London UK

  • 5 May
    Three Sisters who are not Sisters
    University of Las Vegas / Paul Harris theater, Las Vegas NV

  • 25, 26, 27 April 4:00 P.M. Bertha, Queen of Norway
    Event: Bertha and the Bad Girls ; also Purcell and Handel
    Vertical Player Repertory Opera/ Brooklyn NY

  • 23, 25, 27 April
    Our Town
    Juilliard Opera Center, The Juillard Orchestra, Anne Manson, New York

  • April 22
    Barcarolles
    Literary & Philosophical Society, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

  • 30 March
    The Stars Have Not Dealt for voice/piano
    Florestan Recital Project
    Boston Conservatory

  • 27 March
    World Premiere The Stars Have Not Dealt for voice/piano
    Florestan Recital Project, Dickinson College, Carlisle PA

  • 7 March
    Barcarolles
    NPL Music Society, Teddington, Berkshire, UK

  • 28 February, 1 March
    Our Town Catholic University of America
    Washington, DC

  • 19 January
    Symphony No. 2 (UK Premiere)
    Helios Chamber Orchestra / Owen Leech
    Hampstead Garden Suburb Free Church
    London, UK

  • 8 January
    Picnic on the Marne
    Adam Swayne, Hannah Marcinowicz
    Purcell Room
    London, UK
2007
  • 23 November
    Rorem and Bernstein program
    Thomas Lanners, piano
    Pianistes a la Maison du Peuple
    Brussels, Belgium
  • 21 November
    Rorem and Bernstein program
    Thomas Lanners, piano
    Rode Pomt; Ghent, Belgium
  • 3 November
    Lions (A Dream)
    North Carolina Symphony / Branford Marsalis Quartet / Grant Llewllyn
    Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh, NC, USA
  • 2 November
    Lions (A Dream)
    North Carolina Symphony / Branford Marsalis Quartet / Grant Llewllyn
    Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh, NC, USA
  • 1 November
    Lions (A Dream)
    North Carolina Symphony / Branford Marsalis Quartet / Grant Llewllyn
    Pinecrest High School Auditorium, Southern Pines, NC, USA
  • 24 October
    Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano "Dolce Suono" Group, Haverford PA
  • 18 October
    War Scenes
    Gerald Finley, baritone / Julius Drake, pft
    Wigmore Hall, London UK
  • 10 October
    Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano "Dolce Suono" Group, Philadelphia
  • 7 October
    Little Elegy
    Irene Drummond, soprano / Alasdair Beatson, piano
    Kings College Chapel, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
  • 26 September
    Romeo and Juliet
    Richard Hand, guitar, Jennifer Stinton, flute
    Sherwell Centre, Plymouth, United Kingdom
  • 22 September
    Evidence Of Things Not Seen
    Florestan Recital Project, Dickinson College, Carlisle PA
    7:00 pm
  • 14 September
    Little Elegy, Andy Warhol Celebration
    Irene Drummond, soprano / Iain Burnside, piano
    National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
  • 11,14,17,19 August
    Festival Opera
    Walnut Creek CA
    Our Town West Coast Premiere
  • 10 August
    Lions (A Dream)
    Aspen Festival Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin
    Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, CO, USA
  • 15 July
    Nocturne for Double Bass and Piano (World Primiere)
    The Basso Moderno Duo (Dr. Allen Von Schenkel db; Kristen Williams pft)
    McEnvoy Auditorium, Smithsonian American Art Museum
    Washington, DC
  • 2 July
    Organ Concerto
    Saint Ignatius Church, New York
  • 18 May
    Three Prayers
    Flemish Radio Choir / tbc
    Predikherenkerk, Leuven, Belgium
  • 17 May
    Three Prayers
    Flemish Radio Choir / tbc
    OLV-ter-Potterie, Brugges, Belgium
  • 16 May
    Three Prayers (Belgian premiere)
    Flemish Radio Choir / tbc
    Flagey, Brussels, Belgium
  • 21 April
    Erato Ensemble Mystics and Misfits / NR song Knight of the Grail
    St. Andrews-Wesley Church; Vancover B.C., Canada
  • 21 April
    World Premiere: Afternoon On A Hill, Four Pieces for Chorus and Piano
    The Young People's Chorus of New York
    Francisco J. Nunez, artistic director
    7:30 PM
    92nd Street YMHA, New York
  • 4-21 April
    San Francisco Ballet Company
    San Francisco CA
    World premiere: On Common Ground
    Choreographer: Helgi Tomasson; to music by NR, String Quartet #4
  • 29 March
    World Premiere: Four Prayers for Flute and Piano
    Marya Martin
    Weill Hall, New York
  • 29 March
    Mallet Concerto
    Evelyn Glennie, DBE, percussion / Akbank Chamber Orchestra / Cem Mansur
    Istanbul, Turkey
  • 28 March
    Mallet Concerto (Turkish premiere)
    Evelyn Glennie, DBE, percussion / Akbank Chamber Orchestra / Cem Mansur
    Istanbul, Turkey
  • 23 March
    7:30, Zankel Hall, New York
    War Scenes
    for voice and piano, Gerald Finley, baritone
  • 15, 16, 17 March
    Nashville Symphony/ Arild Remmerit
    Nashville TN
    Fantasy and Polka
  • 5 March
    92 St YMHA, Lexington Ave at 92 St, New York
    A Tribute to W.H. Auden with Shirley Hazzard, Sandy McClatchy, Edward Mendelson, Ned Rorem, Charles Rosen, and Oliver Sacks. Literary readings and performances. NR will accompany four songs on poems of Auden, with tenor Scott Murphree.
    8:00 PM
  • 26 February
    Romeo and Juliet
    Richard Hand, guitar, Jennifer Stinton, flute
    Sherwell Centre, Plymouth, United Kingdom
  • 9,11 February
    Raleigh, North Carolina
    A.J. Fletcher Opera Theatre
    Our Town
    Friday February 9 @ 8:00 PM, Sunday February 11 @ 2:00 PM
  • 2,4 February
    Winston-Salem, North Carolina
    Stevens Center of the North Carolina School of the Arts
    Our Town
    Friday February 2 @ 8:00 PM, Sunday February 4 @ 2:00 PM
  • 2 February
    Romeo and Juliet
    Richard Hand, guitar, Jennifer Stinton, flute
    Wigmore Hall, London, United Kingdom
  • World Premiere
    'Strada Duo' performs works including the World Premiere of Lullaby by NR
    Weil Concert Hall at Carnegie Hall
    Sunday, January 21, 2007
    5:30 pm
2006
  • 7 ,8 ,9 December
    Cleveland, Ohio
    English Horn Concerto
    Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
  • 10 November
    Los Angeles, CA
    Violin Concerto
    Los Angeles Philharmonic
  • 11 September
    Barnes & Noble Lincoln Center
    Broadway and 65 Street CD signing of new Naxos CD - Flute and Violin Concertos
    Discussion with NR, conductor José Serebrier, Flutist Jeffrey Khaner, violinist Philipe Quint
  • Aspen Music Festival
    Aspen, Colorado
    Our Town: David Zinman, conductor
    Saturday July 29 @ 7:00 PM, Monday July 31 @ 7:00 PM, Wednesday August 2 @ 7:00PM
  • 28 July @ 12:00 PM
    Aspen, Colorado
    Aspen Music Festival
    Screening of documentary film Ned Rorem: Word and Music
    Paepcke Auditorium
  • 27 July @ 8:30 PM
    Aspen, Colorado
    Aspen Music Festival
    Ying Quartet performs United States: Seven Viewpoints for String Quartet
  • 29 July @ 4:00 PM
    Aspen, Colorado
    Aspen Music Festival
    Chamber Music Concert of NR's Bright Music
  • 26 July @ 12:00 PM
    Aspen, Colorado
    Aspen Music Festival
    Panel Discussion of Our Town
  • 1,5,9 July
    Saratoga Springs, New York
    Lake George Opera
    Our Town
    July 1 @ 8:00 PM, July 5 @ 1:00 PM, and July 9 @ 1:00 PM.
  • 20,21 June
    Washington, D.C.
    The Kennedy Centre
    The Royal Ballet perform the ballet Tanglewood set to Ned's Violin Concerto. Choreographed by Alastair Marriott, with conductor Barry Wordsworth and Solo Violinist Vasko Vassilier.
  • 20 June
    St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwood, United Kingdom
    Scottish Ensemble, Nash Ensemble
    Strings Symphony
  • 7 June
    Teatro Solis
    Montevideo, Uruguay
    Song program including works by NR
    Carole Farley; Julian Pello, piano
  • 18 May
    New York City
    New Amsterdam Singers at Immanuel Lutheran Church perform From an Unknown Past.
  • 2 May
    New York City
    Saint Peter's Church
    Songs of Post-War New York
  • 17-25 April
    Chicago, Illinois
    Ned Rorem Retrospective: Northwestern University presents a festival of Ned's music, with performances of Eagles for orchestra, Evidence of Things Not Seen for four voices and two pianos, the Fourth String Quartet, Sinfonia for 15 Wind Instruments, and Air Music.
  • 4,5 April
    New York City
    Aftermath is performed by Nathaniel Webster and the Laredo Kalichstein Robinson Trio at the YMHA.
  • 15 March
    Saratoga Springs, NY
    Lake George Opera presents 'Songs & Writings of Ned Rorem' at Caffe Lena, 47 Phila Street. An evening of songs and readings of the works of Ned Rorem, featuring excerpts from Rorem's new opera version of Our Town.
  • 8 March
    New York City
    The Ying Quartet performs Ned's String Quartet No. 5 at Symphony Space.
  • 25 February
    Bloomington, Indiana
    Ned appears as a guest in Sharon Robinson's master class.
  • 23 February
    Indianapolis, Indiana
    Claude Baker conducts an all-Rorem concert with the Indiana University New Music Ensemble.
  • 3, 4 March
    24, 25 February
    Bloomington, Indiana
    Our Town receives its world premiere by the Indiana University Opera.
  • 21 January
    New York City
    Four Sonnets for Piano and Mixed Chorus is performed by the Gregg Smith Singers at the Church of St. Peter's at the Citicorp Center.
2005
  • 16 December
    New York City
    Daron Hagen and Gilda Lyons perform the world concert premiere of 'Emily's Aria' from Ned's Our Town as part of their American song set on a concert at St. Matthew and St. Timothy's, 26 West 84th Street, 8:00 PM.
  • 8 November
    New York City
    Ned is interviewed by Paul Schindler of Gay City News about Paul Goodman prior to a new film about Goodman. Gay and Lesbian Center, 208 West 13th Street.
  • 29 October
    New York City
    Auden Poems are performed at the Cthedral of St. John the Divine. Tim Brumsfield, organ.
  • 28 October
    Vassar College
    Five Elizabeth Bishop Songs are performed by Robert Osborne.
  • 22 October
    New York City
    Ned appears from 5:45-6:10 to speak about 'The Book That Changed My Life' at Symphony Space.
  • 19 October
    New York City
    So We'll Go No More Aroving and As I Walked Out One Morning from Evidence of Things Not Seen are performed by the New York Festival of Song at Merkin Hall.
  • 1 June
    London, England
    Carole Farley performs Ned's music at the Wigmore Hall.
  • 22 May
    Chicago, Illinois
    Winter Pages, Santa Fe Songs, Poems of Love and the Rain, 4th String Quartet performed by the Chicago Chamber Players. Ned will attend this concert.
  • 1 May
    Boston, MA
    Symphony No. 3 performed by Ars Viva, Alan Heatherington, conductor.
  • 15 April
    Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    Four Colours (Canadian Premiere) Thomas Piercy, clarinet, Judith Olson, piano.
  • 1 & 3 April
    New York City
    In Time of Pestilence The New Amsterdam Singers, 316 East 88th Street, 4 PM.
  • 12-20 March
    New York City
    Lingo Land, a celebration of the words of Kenwood Elmslie as set to music by Ned and other composers. For more information, call 212-935-5824.
  • 11,12 March
    Baton Rouge, Alabama
    Symphony No. 2 performed by the Alabama Symphony.
  • 3 March
    New York City
    Organ Concerto performed by Steven Hamilton - Holy Trinity Church 316 East 88 Street.


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2004
January-March

Ned headshot.
A publicity still from around 2002.

Ned and Susan Graham in 2004.
Ned and Susan Graham in 2004.

Ned in the seventies.
Composing.

Ned in the seventies.
Composing.

Ned in the seventies.
With musicians performing his work.

Ned speaking at the Other Minds Festival in California, 2004.
Ned speaking at the Other Minds Festival in California, 2004.

Ned watching a rehearsal at the Other Minds Festival in California, 2004.
Ned attending a rehearsal at the Other Minds Festival in California, 2004.

Ned performing in New York, 2003.
New York 79th Birthday Concert, 2003.

Ned Rorem, composer and author.
Publicity shot, 2002.

Ned in New York, 2003.
Composing in New York, 2003.

Ned in Nantucket, 2002.
Photographed in Nantucket, 2002.

Ned in New York, 2003.
Composing in New York City, 2003.



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