Copyright © 1994 by Ned Rorem.
Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., on behalf of the author.
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August 30, 2009, Ned Rorem adds:
It would have been in 1942 that my friend, the pianist Eugene Istomin, introduced me to Harold Brown. Harold was the first real composer I ever knew, despite my time at Curtis. His music was modal, vocally inclined and quite contagious. If only it could have survived more vigorously! Ned Rorem |