Preston Ware Orem has been played on NTS shows including Time Is Away, with Three Indian Songs, Op. 32 first played on 11 August 2020.

Preston Ware Orem (1865-May 26, 1938) was an American composer, pianist, and writer on music. He is frequently grouped with other composers as part of the Indianist movement in American music.[1]

Born in Philadelphia, Orem received his secondary education at the Eastburn Academy, and did his undergraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his degree in music. He studied organ and music theory with Hugh Archibald Clarke, and was instructed in piano by Charles H. Jarvis. From 1889…