by Ned Rorem
Shirley Gabis and NR, 53 rue de la Harpe, 1945.
Samuel Barber
Jennie Tourel and NR, Venice, 1951.
Georges Auric and NR, Hyères, 1953.
Jean Marais and NR, on Marais’s houseboat, 1952.
Janet Flanner and NR, 1972.
NR and Phyllis Curtin.
NR, Paris.
Ned Rorem, March 31, 1958.
November, 2001.
April, 1987.
Ned Rorem, 1950.
INDEX
(Page numbers in italic refer to illustrations.)
Abel, Lionel, 353
Abercrombie, Gertrude, 102
Abram, Jacques, 493, 529
“Absalom,” 259
Acton, Harold, 233
Adam, Adolphe, 489
Adler, Ellen, 266, 463, 578
Adler, Larry, 494
Adler, Stella, 266
Aiken, Conrad, 111, 236
Air Music, 571
Ajemian, Maro, 428
Albee, Edward, 192, 340, 419–20, 437, 546, 568
Albeneri Trio, 215
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 349, 356, 378
Allanbrook, Douglas, 459, 473
Allee, Mrs. (Sunday-school teacher), 55
“Alleluia,” 250, 251, 256, 294, 338, 436
“All in Green Went My Love Riding,” 156, 157
Allotta, Remo (later Kenneth Remo), 170, 179, 287
American Academy of Arts and Letters, 234, 446
American Concert Orchestra, 134
American Conservatory (Chicago), 120
American National Theater and Academy (ANTA), 288, 355
Ames, Elizabeth, 318, 319
Ames, William, 229
“Amor” (Monteverdi), 472
Anderson, Laurie, 232
Anderson, Marian, 64
Anderson, Robert, 164, 225
Anger, Kenneth, 501, 518
“Anna la bonne” (Cocteau), 193, 498
“Anniversary, The,” 259
Another Sleep, 512–13, 559
Answered Prayers (Capote), 447–48
Antonini, Alfredo, 439
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 135, 423, 430, 462, 478, 500, 552
“Appeal,” 243
Aragon, Louis, 135, 257
Archibald, Bill, 450
Arendt, Reid, 372
“Are You the New Person,” 487
Arioso, 226
Arlen, Harold, 450
Arletty, 404, 518
Arnstein, Arnold, 208
Arrau, Claudio, 159
Ashbery, John, 339, 352, 540
Associated Music Publishers, 263, 330
Astaire, Fred, 187
At Noon upon Two, 255
Aubin, Tony, 571
Auden, W. H., 82, 258, 285, 301, 304, 348, 445, 458, 498, 540, 574, 575, 583
Auerbach, Alfred, 365
Auric, Georges, 90–91, 188, 231, 254, 269, 284, 285, 403, 406–7, 461, 474, 501, 523–25, 526, 529, 530–32, 534, 535, 543, 547, 551, 553, 556, 567, 569
Auric, Nora, 188, 452, 474, 497, 523–25, 526, 528–32, 534, 535, 543, 547–48, 551, 569, 577
Austin, Richard, 520
“L’automne,” 423
Ave Maria, 122, 157
Aymé, Marcel, 520
Azevedo, Heitor de, 434, 478, 528
Azevedo, Violetta de, 464, 478, 528
Babbitt, Milton, 185, 195
Bacall, Lauren, 241, 242
Bacchat, Fernand (Noailleses’ chauffeur), 542, 543, 547, 574, 575
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 107, 133, 155, 216, 232, 325, 402, 438, 449, 481, 489, 502
Bacon, Ernest, 382
Bacon, Francis, 114–15, 521
Baily, Mildred, 78
Baker, Josephine, 62, 78, 118, 392
Balaban, Billy, 61
Balanchine, George, 267
Baldwin, James, 429–30, 433, 459
Ballet for Jerry, 578
Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, 96–97, 119, 529, 532
“Bal Musette,” 565
Balthus, 266, 564, 566
Balzac, Honoré de, 142, 376, 541
Banfield, Raffaello de, 400, 405, 410, 558, 569
Bankhead, Tallulah, 130, 237, 446
Barab, Seymour, 185, 195, 202, 248, 265, 288, 301, 324, 350, 355, 356, 360, 392, 482, 535
Barber, Samuel, 156, 167, 178, 189, 190, 192, 208, 254, 258, 266, 282, 289, 296, 298, 306–11, 312–13, 323, 379, 382, 474, 478, 488, 521–22, 527, 570
Barcarolles, 435, 471, 474, 476, 494
Barker, Margaret (Beanie), 355–56, 377, 378
Barnes, Djuna, 241, 408
Barraud, Henri, 501
Barrault, Jean-Louis, 431, 432, 546
Barrie, Elaine, 125
Barrymore, John, 125
Barrymore, Lionel, 183
Bartók, Béla, 141, 202, 262, 263, 271, 375, 441, 580
Bartók, Dita, 141, 375
Bate, Stanley, 369, 461, 463
Bathori, Jane, 465
Baudelaire, Charles, 104–5, 365, 392, 503
“Bawling Blues,” 309
Beardsley, Aubrey, 338
Beaton, Cecil, 353, 423, 443
Beattie, Dean, 135, 144
Beauvoir, Simone de, 463
Beckett, Samuel, 250, 532
Beebe, Lucius, 138–39, 213, 253
Beecham, Sir Thomas, 217
Beeson, Jack, 485, 486
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 25, 133, 155, 171, 173, 187, 193, 200, 233, 304, 336, 364, 377, 468, 472, 489, 504, 530
Bell, Aaron, 362
Beman, Roff, 102, 109
Bemberg, George, 360–61, 379, 399, 478
Bemberg, Philippe, 399–400, 434, 569
Benga, 392–93, 397, 461, 469, 476
Bérard, Christian (Bébé), 544–45
Berenson, Bernard, 542, 548
Berg, Alban, 185, 186, 278
Bergen, Candice, 446
Berger, Arthur, 218, 235, 346, 386–87, 486
Berger, Esther, 443
Bergner, Elizabeth, 342
Berkeley, Lennox, 398, 520
Berlioz, Hector, 24, 200, 466
Bernac, Pierre, 187, 306, 307, 408, 472, 499, 535
Bernatschke, Cathleen Parker, 371
Bernhardt, Sarah, 26, 28
Bernstein, Leonard, 174–85, 186, 190–94, 199, 225, 239, 249, 257, 262, 266, 280, 284, 293, 294, 296, 308, 313, 314, 315, 317–18, 322, 344, 345, 385, 475, 494, 495, 496, 576, 584
Bernstein, Shirley, 494
Bert, Lys (now Lys Symonette), 229
Bertrand, Alyosius, 303
Bertrand, Jean, 453, 464, 478, 549
Bestigui, Charles, 575
Bettis, Valerie, 268, 445, 463
Bewley, Marius, 254
Beydts, Louis, 478
Biesel, Charlie, 102
Biéville, Comte Anne de, 412
Bigelow, Earl, 139, 157
Biggs, E. Power, 199, 224
Bishop, Elizabeth, 498, 540
Blackwood, Lady Caroline, 521
Blaisedell, Francis, 226
Blake, William, 157, 230
Bland, Frank, 369
Blitzstein, Marc, 104, 156, 176, 253, 295–296, 312–23, 366, 373, 385, 467
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 214
Boergner, Philippe, 495
Bogin, Abba, 169
Bohm, Jerry, 218
Bok, Mary Louise Curtis, 189
Bollender, Todd, 499
Bond, Carrie Jacobs, 307
Bonds, Margaret, 62, 64, 78, 81, 198, 253, 486
Bonelli, Richard, 170
Bonfield, Ruth, 57
Boosey & Hawkes, 352
Borough, Art, 25
Borough, Marie, 16, 25–26
Borowski, Felix, 139
Boston Symphony, 99, 293, 486
Boulanger, Lili, 487
Lili Boulanger Award, 398, 430, 436, 466
Boulanger, Nadia, 90, 173–74, 198–99, 207, 282, 285, 296, 345, 371, 396–99, 400, 430, 434, 436, 457, 459, 46
5–66, 467, 472, 476, 494, 496, 500, 525–26, 528, 535, 540, 569
Boulez, Pierre, 107, 185, 208, 254, 281, 283, 399, 427–28, 431, 432, 486, 504, 527, 528, 530–31, 538, 583–84
Boultenhouse, Charles, 255, 256, 383
Bourdet, Denise, 475
Bourdet, Edouard, 104, 435
Bourgeois, Jacques, 569
Bousquet, Marie-Louise, 512, 519, 527, 528, 533
Bowles, Jane, 148–49, 193, 197, 219, 257, 423–24, 425, 449, 460–62, 463, 472, 478, 496, 527, 583
Bowles, Paul, 122, 148–49, 152, 176, 179, 192–94, 217, 218, 221–23, 225, 226, 238, 242, 243, 253–54, 256–59, 262, 315, 355, 369, 382, 402–3, 404, 411–412, 423–25, 426, 431, 436, 437, 443, 454–55, 460, 461, 491, 492, 518, 561, 576
Boyle, Kay, 113, 139, 214
Bradbury, Ray, 42–43
Brahms, Johannes, 48, 63, 101, 167, 171, 199, 201–2, 267, 468, 489, 493
Brando, Marlon, 429, 461
Brecht, Bertolt, 313, 318
Breton, André, 210, 254, 256
Brico, Antonia, 99
Briggs, Peter, 362
Britten, Benjamin, 103, 258, 281, 293–94, 297, 298, 307, 321, 322, 328, 382
Brod, Max, 115
Brooks, Stella, 368, 370, 379
Brown, Andreas, 446–47
Brown, Harold, 234–35, 238, 369
Browning, Robert, 77, 339, 572
Bruckner, Anton, 25, 200
Brunswick, Mark, 229
Bucci, Marc, 429
Buchanan, Briggs, 211
Buffalo University, 148, 352, 533
Buka, Donald, 355
Bülow, Claus von, 573, 583
Bunuel, Luis, 247, 571
Burnap, Wilder, 543, 552, 553, 546–47
“Burnt Ship, A,” 230, 287
Burris, Miss (teacher), 90
Busch ensemble, 173
Bushkin, Joe, 343
Cadmus, Paul, 368
Caetani, Cora, 540, 541
Caetani, Topazia, 540, 541
Cage, John, 102, 207, 218, 227, 232–34, 254, 283, 353, 372, 428
Cagli, Corrado, 353
Cain and Abel, 260, 302, 333, 363
“Call, The,” 423
Callas, Maria, 130, 310, 355
Callaway, Paul, 121, 122, 190, 191, 199, 260, 271, 328, 330
Camus, Albert, 15, 254, 330, 378, 416, 505
Capote, Truman, 160, 384–85, 392, 411, 424, 425, 430–31, 432, 436, 442–43, 445–50, 461
Capp, Al, 463
Carey, Miriam, 113, 116–17
Carmen (Bizet), 100
Carmen Jones, 230
Carpenter, John Alden, 64, 81, 120, 179, 280
Carter, Elliott, 169, 229, 283, 284, 322, 383, 522
Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 519–20
Casadesus family, 54
Casa Fuerte, Yvonne de, 210, 211, 575
Casals, Martita, see Istomin, Marta Casals
Casals, Pablo, 155–56, 468
Catholicism, 60, 107, 127, 132, 244
Catullus, 171
“Catullus: On the Burial of His Brother,” 338
Cavanaugh, Inez, 459
Cenci, Beatrice, 14
Chadourne, Georgette, 527
Chaney, Stewart, 343
Chanler, Theodore, 361
Chaplin, Charlie, 46, 84, 187, 500–501
Charles-Roux, Edmonde, 403
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 225, 316
Chávez, Jorge, 146–47, 175, 176, 198, 265, 267
Cheever, John, 131, 144, 308
Chevalier, Maurice, 187
Chicago Daily News, 125
Chicago Musical College, 141, 158, 162
Chicago Symphony, 119, 147
Chicago world’s fair (1933), 58–59
Childhood Miracle, A, 291, 336, 470, 506
Chino, Bob, 115, 116, 142, 424
Chopin, Frédéric, 63, 103, 141, 162, 167, 168, 184, 235, 325, 472, 481, 511, 512, 532, 569
“Christmas Carol, A,” 575
Christopher Street, 448–49
Churchill, Wainright, 167, 178, 179
Ciccolini, Aldo, 532
Citkowitz, Israel, 521
Clair, René, 524
Clark, Tony, 369, 375
Clarke, Gerald, 447
Clèves, Princess de, 180, 405
Clouzot, Henri-Georges, 434, 524
Clurman, Harold, 282, 324
Coates, Helen, 192, 257
Cobb, Irvin S., 62
Cock-a-doodle-doo, 378
Cocteau, Jean, 13, 25, 42, 71, 87, 124, 132, 136, 162, 164, 193, 225, 235, 237, 269, 303, 315, 320, 366, 392–93, 397, 402, 404, 406, 410, 411, 412, 423, 435, 467, 473, 474, 477, 482, 496–97, 498, 501, 504, 505, 509, 518, 520, 524–29, 531, 537, 541, 545, 548, 556, 570, 571, 581, 582, 583
Cohen, Grace, 292, 295, 301, 335, 338, 545
Colbert, Claudette, 61
Coleman, John, 499
Colette, 25, 188, 341–42, 465
Collegiate Chorale, 314
Comden, Betty, 182
“Comfort to a Youth That Had Lost His Love,” 479
Compton-Burnett, Ivy, 486
Concertino da camera, 329, 338
Confrey, Zez, 81
Conrad, Doda, 174, 466, 469, 472–73, 476, 478, 479, 494–95, 499, 500, 501, 528, 535, 559, 569
Conrad, Joseph, 377
Cook, Gerald, 81, 140, 198, 253, 499
Coomara, Rohini, 474
Cooper, Dale, 72, 73
Cooper, Jackie, 46
Cooper, Paul, 72, 73
Copans, Simon, 459
Copland, Aaron, 36, 133, 143, 147, 149, 152, 169, 176–77, 181–82, 183, 184, 193, 195, 198, 207, 211, 217, 228, 235, 261, 262, 265–66, 279, 279–85, 292–295, 297, 298, 304, 306, 313, 314, 315, 322, 324, 337, 340, 344, 346, 365, 373, 377, 382, 383, 385, 398–99, 428, 482, 486, 578
Cornelius, Dick, 121
Cornell, Allela, 261–62, 327, 355–56
Cornman, Bobby, 493
Coward, Noël, 183, 308, 339
Cowell, Henry, 227
Cowley, Malcolm, 337
Craft, Robert, 235, 288, 383, 466
Craighead, David, 167
Crawford, Betty, 226–27, 234–35, 236, 238
Crawford, Joan, 119, 582
Critical Affairs, 446–47
Croisset, Francis de, 538
Croisset, Philippe de, 538
Cuénod, Hugues, 174, 466, 575, 579
Cuevas, Marquis de, 524, 525, 542–43
Cummings, E. E., 156, 157, 214, 225, 317, 353, 407
Cunningham, Merce, 232, 241
Cunningham, Sarah, 292, 474–75
Cuny, Alain, 458
Curtin, Phyllis (Smith), 293, 294
Curtis Institute of Music, 18, 55, 165, 166–202, 216, 220, 226, 230, 237, 243, 282, 289, 457
Cycle of Holy Songs, 579
Dali, Gala, 573
Dali, Salvador, 256, 541, 556, 565, 573
Dalton, Don, 109, 113, 122, 139, 183, 224
Damase, Jean-Michel, 494, 528
Daniel, Oliver, 344, 369
D’Annunzio, Gabriele, 458, 465
Danto, Arthur, 114–15
Darley, George, 488
Daudet, Alphonse, 557
Davis, Bette, 163
Davis, Christopher, 316
Davis, George, 258
Davis, Mrs. (piano teacher), 47
“Dawn Angel,” 255
Death of Bessie Smith, The (Albee), 420
Death of the Black Knight, 351, 377, 378
Debussy, Claude, 25, 54, 62–63, 81, 85, 98, 106, 125, 133, 137, 141, 142, 146, 155, 173, 186, 216, 223, 251, 263, 269, 281, 314, 322, 334, 342, 354, 364, 413, 421, 432, 458, 465, 466, 481, 487, 493, 533, 578
De Diego, Julio, 371
“De Don Juan,” 225, 229, 498
Delius, Frederick, 107, 132, 170
Dello Joio, Norman, 243
Délorme, Danielle, 520
Demarest, Paul, 464, 473
De Mille, Agnes, 239, 247
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DePencier, Mrs. (teacher), 61, 90
Derenne, Paul, 173–74, 466
Dermit, Doudou (Edouard), 497
D’Ernancourt, Madame, 452, 453
Desnos, Robert, 482
Diaghilev, Sergei, 96, 403, 476, 524, 532–533, 540, 575, 581
Diamond, David, 21, 261–63, 264, 271–272, 274, 292, 326, 330, 336, 342, 375, 382, 434, 487
Dickinson, Emily, 283, 327
Dietrich, Marlene, 63, 94, 119, 176, 368, 411, 444, 542
Dillinger, John, 59
Dinesen, Isak, 67, 72, 244
Dobbs, Mattiwilda, 339
“Doll’s Boy,” 225, 229
Dominguez, Maud, 574
Dominguez, Oscar, 542, 544, 561, 563–564, 567–58, 573–75, 576, 577
Donne, John, 230, 287
Door to Sorrow’s Chamber, The, 110
Dorian Gray, 583
Dos Passos, John, 132, 136
Downes, Olin, 197, 207
Dry Salvages, The (Eliot), 181
Dubois, André, 527
Du Bois, W. E. B., 70
Dufourq, Norbert, 502
Duncan, Todd, 295
Dunham, Katherine, 64
Dunphy, Jack, 443
Dupont, Jacques, 410–11, 464–65, 475
Durand, 141, 481
Durand-Dassier, Jacques, 473
Durey, Louis, 406
Duval, Denise, 525, 569–70
Eagles, 99–100, 322
Earls, Bill, 110
Early Voyagers, 445
Eastman School of Music, 335–36, 350
“Echo’s Song,” 350
Edmunds, John, 423, 437, 520
Edwards, Davis, 31, 56, 57, 58, 61, 72, 73, 117
Edwards, Jean, 31, 56–60, 61, 71, 74, 80, 92
Edwards, Jill, 56, 57, 61, 72, 73
Effront, Nadine, 574
Egleton, Leslie, 473–74
Egress, 338, 359
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 242
Eleven Studies for Eleven Instruments, 268–269
Elgar, Sir Edward, 200
Eliot, T. S., 180–81, 338, 553
Elkan, Louise, 200
Ellington, Duke, 78, 530
Eluard, Dominique, 572–73
Eluard, Nusch, 573
Eluard, Paul, 135, 421, 538, 572–73, 585
Embiricos, Perry, 256
Embry, Norris, 92, 111–12, 113, 119, 150, 164, 198, 225, 252, 260, 302, 349, 376, 394, 396, 403–4, 409, 411, 432–33, 478, 499, 500, 560
Engel, Lehman, 164, 318
Engel, Paul, 338
Erdman, Jean, 227
Erlanger, Philippe, 89, 535
Erlich, Paul, 198
Ernst, Max, 353
Esquire, 447
Esteban, Alberto, 468
Esty, Alice, 317
Etherton, Frank, 160–61, 164, 246, 249, 257, 305, 359, 370, 372