Knowing When to Stop

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Protection:
Filigrane

Année de parution:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480427754

<DIV><DIV><b>A thrilling, poignant, and bold memoir of the early years and accomplishments&mdash;both musical and sexual&mdash;of renowned contemporary composer Ned Rorem</b></div><DIV><BR>Ned Rorem, arguably the greatest composer of art songs that America has produced in more than a hundred years, is also revered as a diarist and essayist whose unexpurgated writings are at once enthralling, enlightening, and provocative. In <i>Knowing When to Stop</i>, one of the most creative American artists of our time offers readers a colorful narrative of his first twenty-seven years, expertly unraveling the intriguing conundrum of who he truly is and how he came to be that way.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>As the author himself writes, &ldquo;A memoir is not a diary. Diaries are written in the heat of battle, memoirs in the repose of retrospect.&rdquo; But careful thought and consideration have not dulled the sharp point of Rorem&rsquo;s pen as he writes openly of his life and loves, his missteps and triumphs, and offers frank and fascinating portraits of the luminaries in his circle: Aaron Copland, Truman Capote, Jean Cocteau, Martha Graham, Igor Stravinsky, Billie Holliday, Paul Bowles, and Alfred C. Kinsey, to name a few. The result is an early life story that is riveting, moving, and intimate&mdash;a magnificent self-portrait of one of the great minds of this age. </div></div>