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Pipedreams highlights three American composers including Ned Rorem, Oct 23rd @ 8pm

The composer Ned Rorem at his Upper West Side apartment, which is filled with art, including a drawing by Klimt, lower left, and portraits of him by Al Hirschfeld, upper left, and Dora Maar, lower right. The large painting above him is by Rosemarie Beck.
2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris; Photograph by Vincent Tullo for The New York Times
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/arts/music/ned-rorem-birthday.html
The composer Ned Rorem at his Upper West Side apartment, which is filled with art, including a drawing by Klimt, lower left, and portraits of him by Al Hirschfeld, upper left, and Dora Maar, lower right. The large painting above him is by Rosemarie Beck.

Now 98, composer Ned Rorem had a long career as a teacher, with students including the Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Higdon.

10/2      Archive Treasures Performances old and new drawn from the vast library of recordings, most made over the years by host Michael Barone.

10/9 Newsworthy Notes  An autumnal survey of recent recordings of unusual and engaging repertoire.

10/16 A Scandinavian Sojourn Another visit with the irrepressible James D. Hicks, who shares some of the Nordic music that has been his mission for the past dozen years.

10/23 Becker, Diemer and Rorem An American miscellany of three disparate and delightfully original composers, René Becker, Emma Lou Diemer and Ned Rorem.

10/30 A Reformation Festival Music to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s revolutionary Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences (written 10/31/1517).