Sir Richard Rodney Bent, a gay Brish poser and pianist who was nomated three tim for Amy Awards, died on Christmas Eve aged 76.
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- WAS CHOP GAY? THE AWKWARD QUTN ONE OF THE EU’S WORST UNTRI FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS
- OBUARY: GAY POSER AND PIANIST SIR RICHARD RODNEY BENT
- JAZZ: GAY MEN JAZZ
WAS CHOP GAY? THE AWKWARD QUTN ONE OF THE EU’S WORST UNTRI FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS
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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.
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OBUARY: GAY POSER AND PIANIST SIR RICHARD RODNEY BENT
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JAZZ: GAY MEN JAZZ
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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? ” Bernste’s Wt Si Story llaborator Arthur Lrents is known to have lled Bernste “a gay man who got married”, statg, “He wasn't nflicted about at all. He was jt gay.
Jelly Roll Morton, the self-proclaimed "ventor of jazz," didn't praise many people bis himself, but he ma an exceptn for Tony Jackson: "Tony was nsired among all who knew him the greatt sgle-hand entertaer the world.” And Jackson was openly gay at a time when that was credibly rare. * gay pianist composer *
Harris lays out the se Hanl was a homosexual.
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