Yamaha Artist Services, Inc. Presents A Unique Evening Of Music by Gabriel Fauré And Ned Rorem
BUENA PARK, Calif. On Wednesday, November 15, Yamaha Artist Services, Inc. will present a musical performance featuring the works of Gabriel Fauré and American composer and author Ned Rorem, who will be in attendance.
The program will feature Rorem's setting of "Santa Fe Songs," a compilation of 12 poems by Witter Bynner. These include " Santa Fe," "Opus 101," "Any Other Time," "Sonnet," "Coming Down the Stairs," "He Never Knew," "El Musico," "The Wintry Mind," "Water-Hyacinths," "Moving Leaves," "Yes I Hear Them," and "The Sowers."
Gabriel Fauré's Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Opus 15, will also be presented.
The featured performers for the evening include baritone Benjamin Weil, violinist Zhenja LaRosa, violist James Eng, cellist Jennifer Jahn and pianist James B. Stewart.
American composer Ned Rorem has composed three symphonies, four piano concertos and an array of other orchestral works, music for numerous combinations of chamber forces, eight operas, choral works of every description, ballets and other music for the theater, and literally hundreds of songs and cycles. He is the author of fourteen books, including five volumes of diaries and collections of lectures and criticism. Time Magazine called Rorem "the world's best composer of art songs."
He has also been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship (1951), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1957) and an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1968). Rorem has received commissions for new works from the Ford Foundation, the Lincoln Center Foundation, the Chicago Symphony, Carnegie Hall, the New York Philharmonic and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
Rorem received ASCAP's Lifetime Achievement Award at New York's Lincoln Center, as well as the medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Embassy. Ned Rorem currently resides in New York City and Nantucket.
The concert will take place at 7:30 pm at the 3rd floor Piano Salon at Yamaha Artist Services, Inc, which is located at 689 Fifth Avenue, New York City (entrance is at 54th Street). For further information, e-mail yasi@yamaha.com or call 212-339-9995, ext. 0.
 Author and Composer Ned Rorem |
Gabriel Fauré's Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Opus 15, will also be presented.
The featured performers for the evening include baritone Benjamin Weil, violinist Zhenja LaRosa, violist James Eng, cellist Jennifer Jahn and pianist James B. Stewart.
American composer Ned Rorem has composed three symphonies, four piano concertos and an array of other orchestral works, music for numerous combinations of chamber forces, eight operas, choral works of every description, ballets and other music for the theater, and literally hundreds of songs and cycles. He is the author of fourteen books, including five volumes of diaries and collections of lectures and criticism. Time Magazine called Rorem "the world's best composer of art songs."
He has also been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship (1951), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1957) and an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1968). Rorem has received commissions for new works from the Ford Foundation, the Lincoln Center Foundation, the Chicago Symphony, Carnegie Hall, the New York Philharmonic and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
Rorem received ASCAP's Lifetime Achievement Award at New York's Lincoln Center, as well as the medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Embassy. Ned Rorem currently resides in New York City and Nantucket.
The concert will take place at 7:30 pm at the 3rd floor Piano Salon at Yamaha Artist Services, Inc, which is located at 689 Fifth Avenue, New York City (entrance is at 54th Street). For further information, e-mail yasi@yamaha.com or call 212-339-9995, ext. 0.
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