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HE DIED HOMELS AND FOTTEN. NOW GAY BLACK POSER JULI EASTMAN FALLY GETS HIS DUE
He was proudly and provotively Black and gay. It didn’t matter whether you were whe or Black, straight or gay: He had somethg up his sleeve for any of . Eastman may have been weled for beg a gay Black man a mostly whe, if sexually fluid, new mic muny, but that only seemed to unrlie his outsir stat.
An sential rource on Eastman is the book “Gay Guerilla, ” eded by Renée Leve Packer and Mary Jane Leach. He studied unr Frank Bridge, John Ireland and Arthur Benjam among others, and was also a fe ground-breakg operas, which clu Peter Grim (1945), and The Turn of the Screw (1954) – and his famo War Requiem – tackle ntemporaneo issu around psychology and post-war trma, as well his own homosexualy, which was illegal Brten’s lifetime.
As well as beg one of the first openly gay posers full stop, Poulenc also didn’t chew his sexualy the ntext of his relig posns spanned om timate chamber sonatas wh sublime, twistg melodi and lite imprsnist harmoni (thk the 1957 Flute Sonata), to his Piano Concerto and epic one-act opera for soprano and orchtra, La voix humae.