The plan was a simple one: Make a recording or two of all the music composer Ned Rorem has written for solo piano. Just one small problem with that idea. Unlike a lot of creators of what is commonly ...

For the socially minded, the inexhaustibly quotable composer Ned Rorem once defined concerts as “that which surrounds intermission.” Well, David Troy Francis’ piano recital Sunday afternoon had no ...

Ned Rorem, the prolific Pulitzer-winning musician known for his vast output of compositions and for his barbed and sometimes scandalous prose, died Friday (Nov. 18) at 99. The news was confirmed by a ...

FILE - American composer Ned Rorem appears at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia after a dress rehearsal for his "Evidence of Things Not Seen" on Oct. 23, 2003. (AP Photo/Jessica Griffin, ...