I’m up to my ears in housecleaning, digging through stacks of old boxes, exhuming all sorts of interesting concert programs and program guides, theater schedules, and personal writings, documents, and artwork, some of them dating back 40 years. The chain I’ve forged in life!

Leave it to me not to throw anything away…

But more on that in another post.

For now, I wanted to quickly acknowledge American composer Ned Rorem, who would have been 100 today. Rorem died last year on November 18.

I hope you’ll pardon me for stacking up a few links from last year.

My 99th birthday post from 10/23/22

Rorem’s obituary, on 11/18

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=983194375932959&set=a.883855802533484

Further reflections on 11/19

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=983864249199305&set=a.883855802533484

Rorem, Virgil Thomson, and William Flanagan for Thanksgiving

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=988021188783611&set=a.883855802533484

The posts include links to samples of Rorem’s music.

Sorry, Ned, but the house is a wreck!

PHOTO: Rorem in Paris in 1953