Anthony Tommasi article on Nade Hubbs' book Queer Composn of Ameri's Sound: Gay Mornists, Amerin Mic and Natnal Inty; says Hubbs ntends that mid-20th-century 'Amerin' sound was vented by gay posers Leonard Bernste, Marc Blzste, Virgil Thomson, Ned Rorem, Aaron Copland and David Diamond; photos (M)
Contents:
- WAS CHOP GAY? THE AWKWARD QUTN ONE OF THE EU’S WORST UNTRI FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS
- WHAT'S SO GAY ABOUT AMERIN MIC?
WAS CHOP GAY? THE AWKWARD QUTN ONE OF THE EU’S WORST UNTRI FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS
Classil mic wouldn't be what is today whout the great gay matros. * which composer was gay *
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. 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.
WHAT'S SO GAY ABOUT AMERIN MIC?
Howard Pollack, The Dean of Gay Amerin Composers, Amerin Mic, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Sprg, 2000), pp. 39-49 * which composer was gay *
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?