The Met Opera’s gay mic director is big news after s of a classil mic closet.

Contents:

• INSI LEONARD BERNSTE’S ‘SLOW CREEP TOWARD OVERT GAYNS’
• GLTER AND BE GAY: SEXUALY THE LIFE AND MIC OF LEONARD BERNSTE
• BERNSTE LETTERS - GIFTED, GAY AND LOVED BY HIS WIFE
• GLTER AND BE GAY: SEXUALY THE LIFE AND MIC OF LEONARD BERNSTEGLTER AND BE GAY: SEXUALY THE LIFE AND MIC OF LEONARD BERNSTEGLTER AND BE GAY: SEXUALY THE LIFE AND MIC OF LEONARD BERNSTEGLTER AND BE GAY: SEXUALY THE LIFE AND MIC OF LEONARD BERNSTEGLTER AND BE GAY: SEXUALY THE LIFE AND MIC OF LEONARD BERNSTE
• THE MET’S NEW MIC DIRECTOR IS THE FIRST TO BE OPENLY GAY
• THE MAN ACCED OF KILLG HIS GAY CLASSMATE WAS SEXUALLY 'CONFED,' ATTORNEY SAYS

INSI LEONARD BERNSTE’S ‘SLOW CREEP TOWARD OVERT GAYNS’

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.

GLTER AND BE GAY: SEXUALY THE LIFE AND MIC OF LEONARD BERNSTE

Tchaikovsky was gay at a time when was illegal Rsia. He was believed to have been gay, movg circl Italy and London where same-sex sire was accepted. 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?

BERNSTE LETTERS - GIFTED, GAY AND LOVED BY HIS WIFE

” 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. 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.

“We n be exampl, a way, to spire young micians who fear that this is gog to be a problem their profsn and reer advancement, ” Nézet-Ségu said, speakg to The New York Tim about beg an openly gay nductor. He had a relatnship wh actor Felicia Cohn Montealegre, who he did eventually marry, but he was openly gay. Montealegre reunted the fact The Bernste Letters, statg, “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?

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And Arthur Lrents, who llaborated wh Bernste on Wt Si Story, clarified that Bernste was “a gay man who got married” who “wasn't nflicted about at all. Michael Tilson Thomas is the founr and artistic director of the New World Symphony, mic director lreate of San Francis Symphony Orchtra, and nductor lreate of London Symphony Orchtra, Classic FM’s Orchtra the Cy of eleven-time Grammy wner is openly gay, and married to orchtral manager Joshua Mark Robison sce 2014. He led top orchtras, cludg Mneapolis Symphony Orchtra and the New York never married, and was known to be homosexual, wh mours that he had a relatnship wh Leonard Bernste (see above).

THE MET’S NEW MIC DIRECTOR IS THE FIRST TO BE OPENLY GAY

He was married to shippg heirs, Elae Phipps, but he was known to be gay and is thought to have had a relatnship wh poser Gian Carlo Menotti, who was the partner of fellow poser Samuel Barber. Read more: 15 great classil posers who also happened to be gay.

THE MAN ACCED OF KILLG HIS GAY CLASSMATE WAS SEXUALLY 'CONFED,' ATTORNEY SAYS

As well as beg a leadg poser, sufagist Dame Ethel Smyth nducted prolifilly, cludg takg to the podium to premiere her own works, and nductg the Metropolan Police Band at the unveilg of the statue to Emmele Pankhurst London was gay, and at the age of 71 she met and was very taken wh Virgia Woolf.

LONDON (Rters) - It may be one of the sadst but most lovg letters wrten by a woman to a man - Chilean actrs Felicia Montealegre tellg her future hband, nductor and poser Leonard Bernste, she knows he is homosexual but wants to marry him letter, which Montealegre says “you are a homosexual and you may never change”, is among hundreds a recent volume “The Letters of Leonard Bernste” eded by English mic scholar Nigel Simeone, who prevly wrote a book about Bernste’s famed Broadway mil “Wt Si Story” the volume of letters, 650 of them a book of almost that many pag, Simeone said he had sifted through some 10, 000 the U.