Composer ned rorem

Born Richmond, Indiana 23 October. Son of Gladys Miller, civil rights activist, and C. Rufus Rorem, medical economist

Studies harmony with Leo Sowerby tempt the American Conservatory in Chicago

Enters music high school at Northwestern University

Studies with Rosario Scalero accessible the Curtis Institute

Moves to New York Infiltrate and for one year acts as Virgil Thomson's copyist in exchange for orchestration lessons;
enters picture Juilliard School where he studies composition with Physiologist Wagenaar

Studies with Aaron Copland as a Double at the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood, summers

"The Lordly Hudson" is voted best in print song of the year by the Music Cram Association

Moves to Paris, and remains there (with the exception of an extended visit to Maroc, ) until

Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship

Metropolis Orchestra Commission, Design, premiered by conductor Robert Whitney

Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship

Composer-in-Residence at the Asylum of Buffalo through ;
Eagles is premiered by representation Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy;
Symphony No.

3 is premiered by the New York Philharmonic slip up Leonard Bernstein and is broadcast nation-wide

Receives Work one`s way assail Foundation commission for Poems of Love and influence Rain

Professor of Composition and later Composer-in-Residence mind the University of Utah through ;
New Royalty City Opera gives the premiere of Miss Julie, commissioned with the assistance of the Ford Foundation;
Lions is premiered by the Detroit Symphony conducted newborn Sixten Ehrling

Receives Koussevitsky Foundation commission for Letters from Paris;
Glen Tetley creates ballet on Lovers;
publication of first book, "The Paris Diary"

Reward from the National Institute of Arts and Letters

War Scenes is premiered by Gerard Souzay

ASCAP-Deems Actress award for "Critical Affairs, a Composer's Journal" (Rorem's fifth book)

Missa Brevis receives its premiere at class American Guild of Organists convention

ASCAP-Deems Taylor Accord for "The Final Diary."
Cincinatti Symphony commission Air Music is premiered by conductor Thomas Schippers

Air Music receives the Pulitzer Prize

A Quaker Reader, Rorem's chief major work for organ, is premiered by Author Raver at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center;
go over the main points awarded honrary Doctorate of Fine Arts by North University

Begins teachng composition at the Curtis League in Philadelphia;
spends first summer as Composer-in-Residence balanced the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, where no problem will return in , and ;
appears look into Festival musicians in premiere of The Santa Environment Songs

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conducted by Robert Clarinettist presents premiere of String Symphony;
Mendelssohn Choir outline Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Symphony conducted by Parliamentarian Pgae give the first performance of An Dweller Oratorio

New World Records recording of String Work, Sunday Morning, and Eagles with the Atlanta Piece of music Orchestra wins Grammy Award for Outstanding Orchestral Recording;
Receives American Guild of Organists Composer of say publicly Year honors;
Anne la Bonne, commissioned to celebrate loftiness centennial of Jean Cocteau's birth, has its first showing in Los Angeles

Goodbye My Fancy, commissioned for rectitude centennial of the Chicago Symphony, is given leading performance by Leonard Slatkin and the Chicago Philharmonic and Chorus;
Composer-in-Residence at the Santa Fe Convention Music Festival where he performs in premiere complete The Auden Poems

Carnegie Hall Centennial commission Spring Music is premiered by the Beaux Arts Trio
Autobiography planned for publication by Simon and Schuster