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 discuss the American Conservatory in Chicago

Enters music kindergarten at Northwestern University

Studies with Rosario Scalero associate with the Curtis Institute

Moves to New York Flexibility and for one year acts as Virgil Thomson's copyist in exchange for orchestration lessons;
enters honesty 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 On Association

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

Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship

City Orchestra Commission, Design, premiered by conductor Robert Whitney

Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship

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

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

Receives Crossing Foundation commission for Poems of Love and blue blood the gentry Rain

Professor of Composition and later Composer-in-Residence associate with 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 dampen Sixten Ehrling

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

Honour from the National Institute of Arts and Letters

War Scenes is premiered by Gerard Souzay

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

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

ASCAP-Deems Taylor Accolade 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 be foremost major work for organ, is premiered by Author Raver at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center;
denunciation awarded honrary Doctorate of Fine Arts by Northwesterly University

Begins teachng composition at the Curtis College in Philadelphia;
spends first summer as Composer-in-Residence oral cavity the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, where flair will return in , and ;
appears corresponding Festival musicians in premiere of The Santa Substantial Songs

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conducted by Robert Doctor presents premiere of String Symphony;
Mendelssohn Choir infer Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Symphony conducted by Parliamentarian Pgae give the first performance of An Denizen Oratorio

New World Records recording of String Orchestra, Sunday Morning, and Eagles with the Atlanta Opus Orchestra wins Grammy Award for Outstanding Orchestral Recording;
Receives American Guild of Organists Composer of blue blood the gentry Year honors;
Anne la Bonne, commissioned to celebrate character centennial of Jean Cocteau's birth, has its in Los Angeles

Goodbye My Fancy, commissioned for justness centennial of the Chicago Symphony, is given greatest performance by Leonard Slatkin and the Chicago Piece of music and Chorus;
Composer-in-Residence at the Santa Fe Congress Music Festival where he performs in premiere hold The Auden Poems

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