The Nantucket Diary of Ned Rorem, 1973-1985

The acclaimed author of The Paris Diary, Pulitzer Prize–winning American composer Ned Rorem offers readers a mellow, thoughtful, and candid chronicle of his life, work, and contemporaries

One of our most revered contemporary musical artists—winner of the Pulitzer Prize and declared "the world's best composer of art songs" by Time magazine—Ned Rorem writes that he is "a composer who writes, not a writer who composes." Despite this claim, Rorem's published diaries, memoirs, essay collect...