Other Entertainment

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480427785

<DIV><DIV><b>A collection of insightful essays, interviews, and commentaries on music, art, and those who make it, from acclaimed author and Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning composer Ned Rorem</b></div><DIV><BR>It is a rare artist who can deftly cross the boundaries separating one artistic endeavor from another. Contemporary American composer Ned Rorem is one of the able few, not only &ldquo;the world&rsquo;s best composer of art songs&rdquo; (<i>Time </i>magazine) but a remarkable purveyor of prose works, as well. Rorem&rsquo;s superb collection <i>Other Entertainment</i> features insightful and fascinating essays on music, musicians, and literature, as well as provocative interviews with well-known figures in the arts and elsewhere.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>Whether he&rsquo;s offering a cogent analysis of Benjamin Britten&rsquo;s published diaries, confronting John Simon on the famously acerbic film and theater reviewer&rsquo;s alleged homophobia, or providing in-depth commentary on the lives and accomplishments of major artists and musical colleagues&mdash;as well as moving obituaries for those we have lost&mdash;Rorem proves himself to be as entertaining and controversial a social and cultural critic as America has ever produced.</div></div>