Pianist

Music by Will Healy, Errollyn Wallen, Paquito d’Rivera, and Johannes Brahms.

EPSG:4326

Santa Monica Music Festival: Program 1

First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica

Ned Miller Rorem (October 23, 1923 – November 18, 2022) was both a composer and a writer. Best known for his art songs which number over 500, Rorem was the leading American of his time writing in the genre. Frequently described as a neoromantic composer, he showed limited interest in the emerging modernist aesthetic of his lifetime. As a writer, he kept—and later published—numerous diaries in which he spoke candidly of his exchanges and relationships with many cultural figures of America and France. I had the distinct pleasure of planning and conducting both his 70th and 75th birthday concerts with The New York Virtuoso Singers. I met with him in his apartment, where he looked through his file cabinets, handing me multiple choral works he wished me to conduct. Little did I know then that these two concerts would present only a fraction of his total choral output. Recently I pored through ALL of them, choosing my favorites to present here for his 100th birthday tribute. I only wish he were able to enjoy this concert, as he did the two others.

Pianist

Will Healy

Events

Past events

Jul 17, 2025

Santa Monica Music Festival: Program 1 · Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra

Oct 22, 2023

All Ned Rorem - 100th Birthday Tribute · The New York Virtuoso Singers

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