Love ned rorem biography

1923
Born Richmond, Indiana 23 October. Son of Gladys Miller, civil rights activist, and C. Rufus Rorem, medical economist

1938
Studies harmony with Leo Sowerby at the American Conservatory in Chicago

1940
Enters music school at Northwestern University

1942
Studies with Rosario Scalero at the Curtis Institute

1944
Moves to New York City and for one year acts as Virgil Thomson's copyist in exchange for orchestration lessons;
enters the Juilliard School where he studies composition with Bernard Wagenaar

1946
Studies with Aaron Copland as a Fellow at the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood, summers 1946-47

1948
"The Lordly Hudson" is voted best published song of the year by the Music Library Association

1949
Moves to Paris, and remains there (with the exception of an extended visit to Morocco, 1949-51) until 1957

1951
Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship

1955
Louisville Orchestra Commission, Design, premiered by conductor Robert Whitney

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