Ned Rorem, né le 23 octobre 1923 à Richmond et mort le 18 novembre 2022 à New York, est un compositeur et diariste américain.
Il est lauréat du prix Pulitzer en 1976 et fut nommé compositeur de l'année 1998 par Musical America. Wikipedia
“The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.”
[Who's Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day, ISBN 041522974X, 2001, Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (eds)]
“Art means to dare — and to have been right.”
W magazine (10 October 1980).
Being Alone http://books.google.com/books?id=IKgYAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Art's+the+biggest+vanity+the+assumption+that+one's+view+of+peace+or+fright+or+beauty+is+permanently+communicable%22&pg=PA21#v=onepage, The Ontario Review (Spring/Summer 1980)
[Who's Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day, ISBN 041522974X, 2001, Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (eds)]
