Setting the Tone by Rorem, Ned -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Dedication CONTENTS Prologue I DIARY

The Piano in My Life Of Vanity Being Ready Paris in the Spring Nantucket Diary, 1974 On Edmund White’s States of Desire Setting the Tone Being Alone

II PEOPLE

Women in Music Misia Remembering Janet Cosima Wagner’s Diaries Boulanger as Teacher Thomson as Teacher Messiaen and Carter on Their Birthdays When Paul Jacobs Plays Debussy Thinking of Ben Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich Boulez Cocteau and Music Vera Stravinsky’s and Robert Craft’s Stravinsky in Pictures and Documents Stravinsky at 100 An Auden Courageous Coward Shaw: The Great Composers

III THE MUSICAL VOICE

Teaching and Performance The American Art Song More Notes on Song Fauré’s Songs The Mélisande Notebook Fauré and Debussy Considering Carmen Notes on a French Bias A Triptych Notebook: Reactions to the Theater Pieces of Ravel, Poulenc and Satie Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Critic

IV EARLY PIECES

Writing Songs Song and Singer Listening and Hearing Composer and Performance Arthur Honegger The Beatles The Avant-Garde as Démodé Around Satie’s Socrate Paul Bowles Remembering a Poet Remembering Green

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