Contents:
- INSI LEONARD BERNSTE’S ‘SLOW CREEP TOWARD OVERT GAYNS’
- BERNSTE LETTERS - GIFTED, GAY AND LOVED BY HIS WIFE
- THE MET’S NEW MIC DIRECTOR IS THE FIRST TO BE OPENLY GAY
- GLTER AND BE GAY: SEXUALY THE LIFE AND MIC OF LEONARD BERNSTE
INSI LEONARD BERNSTE’S ‘SLOW CREEP TOWARD OVERT GAYNS’
Those gay romanc were particularly hard on his wife, Felicia Montealegre, a Chilean actrs of Jackie Kennedy-que elegance. “You are a homosexual and may never change, ” she wrote him the year they wed, a letter her children found after her ath.
Gradually, his libido revered — and wh gto, as he began what his dghter lls a “slow creep toward overt gayns. Bernste, acrdg to his Wt Si Story llaborator Arthur Lrents, was “a gay man who got married.
He was jt gay. As a young man, he had many gay affairs, but he married Felicia Montealegre, a Chilean-born actrs, and raised a fay. 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.
BERNSTE LETTERS - GIFTED, GAY AND LOVED BY HIS WIFE
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. Tchaikovsky was gay at a time when was illegal Rsia.
THE MET’S NEW MIC DIRECTOR IS THE FIRST TO BE OPENLY GAY
He was believed to have been gay, movg circl Italy and London where same-sex sire was accepted.
GLTER AND BE GAY: SEXUALY THE LIFE AND MIC OF LEONARD BERNSTE
Mic historian Ellen Harris leads on the se for Hanl’s homosexualy, argug that his ntatas exhib a clear homosexual subtext her book Hanl as Orphs. And like them, he was associated wh gay clergyman, Cardal Pietro Baroque poser and vlist is known for his chamber sonatas and ncerti grossi, and has gone down history for refg to play a sectn of Hanl’s orator, The Triumph Of Time And Tth, bee a vl note went higher than Corelli believed appropriate for the stment. Unlike Copland, US poser Samuel Barber ma no effort to keep his homosexualy out of explic view and his life partner was poser Gian Carlo Menotti, who he studied wh at the Curtis Instute.
Leonard Bernste also studied at the Curtis Instute wh Barber and Menotti (see above), and although he had an on-aga-off-aga relatnship wh actor Felicia Cohn Montealegre and eventually married her, he was openly gay. Montealegre herself wrote publicly about her book, The Bernste Letters, “you are a homosexual and may never change – you don’t adm to the possibily of a double life, but if your peace of md, your health, your whole nervo system pend on a certa sexual pattern what n you do?