Mary Dyer - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:47:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Mary Dyer - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org 32 32 16720591 At 95, Ned Rorem Is Done Composing. But He’s Not Done Living https://www.quakerranter.org/at-95-ned-rorem-is-done-composing-but-hes-not-done-living/ https://www.quakerranter.org/at-95-ned-rorem-is-done-composing-but-hes-not-done-living/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:38:41 +0000 https://www.quakerranter.org/at-95-ned-rorem-is-done-composing-but-hes-not-done-living/ The Times has a nice profile of the not-dead Pulitzer Prize composer and gay icon. The piece doesn’t mention his Quaker roots (he was born in Richmond, Indiana and raised as a Friend) but an embedded playlist includes “Mary Dyer did hang as a flag,” a piece from his 1976 composition A Quaker Reader.

I don’t know much about Rorem or the extent or ongoingness of his Quaker identity (if anyone wants to share more in the comments that would be great). I keep a list I call “Surprising Unexpected Unlikely Quakers” for names people give me of famous’ish people with Quaker connections. Who’s your favorite unlikely Quaker?


At 95, Ned Rorem Is Done Composing. But He’s Not Done Living. (Published 2018)

At 95, Ned Rorem Is Done Composing. But He’s Not Done Living. (Published 2018)

As the composer, writer and gay icon lives quietly on the Upper West Side, his music and books…
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