Settling the Score: Essays on Music

Ned Rorem explores the state of contemporary classical music in a magnificent collection of personally selected essays and critiques of masterworks, lesser works, and their legendary creators

Pulitzer Prize–winner Ned Rorem's musical compositions are considered some of the finest produced in the past century. His literary works have been hailed as "scintillating" (Time magazine) and "extraordinary" (The Washington Post). Rorem's remarkable twin talents are brilliantly intertwined in Se...