The late Ned Rorem was an American Composer and Diarist who won a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1976 for his Air Music: Ten Etudes for Orchestra. Ned Rorem is tagged as “the world’s best composer of art songs”.
Ned Rorem was the author of sixteen books which include five volumes of diaries and collections of lectures and criticism.
Ned Rorem was born on October 23, 1923, in Richmond, Indiana to his parents, C. (Clarence) Rufus Rorem (1894–1988) and his wife, the former Gladys W. Miller. He had an elder sister, identified as Rosemary.
Ned Rorem earned his high school education at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and the American Conservatory of Music. Ned Rorem continued his education at Northwestern University before and briefly learned at Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and the Juilliard School in New York City.
Per records, Ned Rorem dated James Holmes for three decades and lived together in New York City. James Holmes was an organist and choir director and died in 1999 after battling cancer and HIV/AIDS.
Ned Rorem Obituary
Ned Rorem died at the age of 99 on November 18, 2022. He died on Friday morning at his house in Manhattan, Upper West Side.
According to his publisher, Boosey & Hawkes Ned Rorem’s death was from natural causes.
Ned Rorem died in the presence of friends and family, according to Boosey & Hawkes. Ned Rorem has six nieces and nephews and eleven grandnieces and grandnephews.
Information on his burial arrangement has not yet been disclosed. The team is following the news of his demise and the page will be updated as soon as we chance on his burial arrangements.