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Wings of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1944-2003
Wings of Friendship Selected Letters 19442003 Author:Ned Rorem "When it comes to letter writing, do artists resemble their letters? Yes, except when they don't." So wrote Ned Rorem in his 1998 review of Prokofiev's letters. Over the years Rorem has shown us the craft of autobiography in his five elegant and moving diaries that span the last eight decades. But besides the publication of his correspondence be... more »tween himself and Paul Bowles, Ned Roremone of Americas foremost living composers and the former president of the American Academy of Arts and Lettershas never published the vast correspondence he shared with a sublime mix of people, such as Leontyne Price, Virgil Thompson, Reynolds Price, Angela Lansbury, Judy Collins, Gore Vidal, Cynthia Ozick. In Wings of Friendship, Rorem's letters to these friends and to more than forty others are assembled in chronological order and reveal the range of his interests and depth of his passionsa heart laid bare, billets doux.« less