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About Ned Rorem

Ned Rorem (October 23, 1923 – November 18, 2022) was a composer and diarist, best known and most praised for his song settings. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1976.

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“Art means to dare — and to have been right.”

means right dare

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“The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.”

beautiful beauty shyer

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“Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.”

communicable permanently assumption

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“The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.”

repeat experience unchanged

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“Art means to dare — and to have been right.”

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About Ned Rorem

Ned Rorem (October 23, 1923 – November 18, 2022) was a composer and diarist, best known and most praised for his song settings. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1976.