Centenary

 A musical centenary today – the American composer Ned Rorem, who very nearly lived to see it himself (he died, aged 99, last November). A prolific composer who favoured a neoromantic rather than a modernist style, he was described by Virgil Thomson as 'an American Poulenc', which is good enough for me. He wrote several hundred 'art songs', and here, to mark the centenary, is one of them, the charming 'Early in the Morning'...