You might thk “Every Good Boy Do Fe,” the new memoir by Jeremy Denk, the gay, MacArthur-geni-award-wng ncert pianist, would have ltle appeal for mil philist like me. Or that Denk’s g-of-age story would only tickle the ivori of micians and their aficnados.
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- OFT BANNED GAY THOR’S NEW KIDS’ BOOK A FUN TREAT
- MACARTHUR FOUNDATN CROWNS AT LEAST THREE GAY “GENI”
OFT BANNED GAY THOR’S NEW KIDS’ BOOK A FUN TREAT
Denk is openly gay—a still remarkably rare phenomenon the world of classil mic. The nductor Yannick Nézet-Ségu, the tenor Michael Fabiano, and the pianist Stephen Hough are others; Denk is one of the very few who wr about his homosexualy a mil settg.
MACARTHUR FOUNDATN CROWNS AT LEAST THREE GAY “GENI”
This year's outstandgly talented 24 recipients clu three proud members of the gay muny: playwright Tarell Alv McCraney, pianist and wrer Jeremy Denk, and dancer-choreographer Kyle Abraham explaed to the New York Tim, he was relyg on food stamps jt three years ago and always fds difficult to subsist as an artist New York Cy. As he explaed about his work, the Ain-Amerin experience general, and beg a gay man Ameri:"I e om a very poor background, so there was no chet to any of the thgs I was learng or difyg as a gay man at school.
Thanks to btsellg, award-wng, gay children’s book thor and artist Todd Parr, we n all jo the fun.
Growg up gay a small town Wyomg, Parr had no klg that he’d be so succsful, acclaimed and loved.