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...rich and varied that it would have international appeal." State and local governments chipped in half of the $4.8 million budget, and new works were commissioned from a dozen or so major playwrights, composers and choreographers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Gian Carlo Menotti, Lukas Foss, Ned Rorem and Geoffrey Holder. To give the festival a festive look-and to remind everyone that this was, after all, flaky, flamboyant Miami-Christo, the site artist, was hired to wrap pink plastic ribbons around ten small, uninhabited islands in Biscayne...
...distillation of human experience, and the importance of the experience it grapples with; finer arts are approached by their own standards of beauty and seriousness (without any programmatic directives offered). Trotsky seems the magazine's political mentor, Bellow its literary white knight. Lowell poet-in-waiting. Ned Rorem and Hilton Kramer its music and art critics...
...Winds. Mass Brass and guests. Works by Beethoven, Mozart. Rorem, and Gabrieli. Kirkland House JCR. 8:30, March 4. Free...
...Rorem, composer of some of the best of today's art songs, says: "They are colleagues of mine, speaking the same language with different accents...
...often rightly so. Cocteau was a master of the bon mot and the telling aphorism, and these pages teem with samples. Perhaps the best is the anecdotal quip that American Composer Ned Rorem relates in his introduction. A literary monthly once posed a question to several writers: "If your house were burning down and you could take one thing, what would it be?" "I'd take the fire," answered Jean Cocteau...