| Record ID | marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-004.mrc:21584763:3103 |
| Source | marc_columbia |
| Download Link | /show-records/marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-004.mrc:21584763:3103?format=raw |
LEADER: 03103mam a2200397 a 4500
001 1515904
005 20220602052247.0
008 940830t19941994nyuacf 000 0aeng
010 $a 94019899
020 $a0671728725
035 $a(OCoLC)30593756
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm30593756
035 $a(CStRLIN)MAHS94-B932
035 $a(hol)AWW6028-0/mus/1
035 $9AJU8866CU
035 $a(NNC)1515904
035 $a1515904
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dMH-Mu
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aML410.R693$bA3 1994
082 00 $a780/.92$aB$220
100 1 $aRorem, Ned,$d1923-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79122081
245 10 $aKnowing when to stop :$ba memoir /$cNed Rorem.
260 $aNew York :$bSimon & Schuster,$c[1994], ©1994.
300 $a607 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, portraits ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $aHe is among America's great living composers. His prose has won him distinction in literary circles. Now, in a revealing memoir covering his first twenty-eight years, ending in 1951 when his published diaries begin, but always with the perceptive wisdom and chagrin made inevitable by the intervening years, Ned Rorem analyzes his astonishing career.
520 8 $aPublished in four volumes, Ned Rorem's diaries - an ongoing chronicle of his life and work - have taken on cult status and have won plaudits everywhere. "Rorem is a marvelous writer," raved James Dickey. "His prose is supple, vivid, arresting," wrote London's Times Literary Supplement. "His intelligence never permits him to be blinded to the truth. He is candid to the point of scandal . . . racy yet poetic, earthy yet exquisite," said Saturday Review.
520 8 $aWith the appearance of his Paris Diary in 1966, Rorem became a hero for the pre-Stonewall gay movement as the first cultural figure to come out of the closet without apology.
520 8 $aThe new book's unflinching candor goes well beyond the narcissistic boundaries of his diaries. Recounting friendships with such vital presences as Leonard Bernstein, Martha Graham, Jean Cocteau, Billie Holiday, Francis Poulenc, Truman Capote, James Baldwin, Virgil Thomson, Paul Bowles, and, of course, Marie-Laure de Noailles, Knowing When to Stop explodes old secrets and examines new truths.
520 8 $aStarting in Chicago, moving to New York, Paris, Morocco, and other points both exotic and familiar, Ned Rorem's memoir is a masterpiece of distances pulled together, lives resurrected, opportunities ignored, chances recaptured. It also gives full expression to the terrible sexual and alcoholic dissolution of one famed for his youthful beauty, but possessed of an indomitable will not only to survive but to triumph. Here is the life of a man who knew himself perhaps too well.
600 10 $aRorem, Ned,$d1923-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79122081
650 0 $aComposers$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117722
852 00 $boff,mus$hML410.R693$iA3 1994