Contents:
- GAY PIANISTS: N YOU TELL?
- PIANISTS STEPHEN HOUGH AND LIBERACE AND WHY PERFUME IS SO GAY
- EVER-PROVOTIVE STEPHEN HOUGH ON THE ISSUE OF GAY PIANISTS
GAY PIANISTS: N YOU TELL?
“Obvly, there’s a gay subtext to that stume, ” the pianist Stephen Hough said of this childhood photograph. “Obvly, there’s a gay subtext to that stume, ” Hough said a recent vio terview. ”) “I do like shockg people, and I thk that’s part of what keeps me onstage, ” he cric Alexandra Coghlan said that there is a lightns of touch both Hough’s playg and wrg, “allowg him to explore some big topics on the page — his Catholic fah, his homosexualy, life as an artist — whout beg po-faced or preachy.
PIANISTS STEPHEN HOUGH AND LIBERACE AND WHY PERFUME IS SO GAY
”Before he had any ia of the ncept, Hough knew that he was gay. Later, he learned what the word “homosexual” meant: “I thought, ‘How disgtg is that! "One reason to bee a prit was that he knew he was gay – "I thk om the age of about four" – which he believed meant he would have to rema celibate.
Father Joseph is a middle-aged gay prit on the verge of beg exposed by one of his many rent boys. Stephen wr: Vladimir Horowz once said that there were three typ of pianist: Jewish, gay and bad. You are here: Home / mic & opera / Pianists Stephen Hough and Liberace and why perfume is so gayStephen Hough, one of Bra's greatt pianists, is also a great blogger and twterer.
At the height of his fame 1956, Liberace was smeared by Cassandra (William Connor) the Daily Mirror a famo and nasty article which acced him, whout sayg as much, of beg gay:. Via Nosg around VI – perfume is so gay – Telegraph Blogs. His scribblgs have appeared var publitns om Woman's Weekly to Gay Tim, and he wrote the ‘Danza Italia' lumn for Dancg Tim magaze.
EVER-PROVOTIVE STEPHEN HOUGH ON THE ISSUE OF GAY PIANISTS
“He’s a homosexual, isn’t he? Maybe she saw somethg malevolent behd the screen and gay was her go-to rponse for somethg sexually I was at Chetham’s School of Mic, I was ved to be on two of Savile’s shows.
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In one, he m on whether playg Schubert bad breath (apparently durg the playg of slow mic, air stagnat the mouth); others, he exam relig dogma, discs performance anxiety and wonrs if is possible to spot a gay is openly gay and a practisg Catholic; a polary that he has wrten about extensively. But that’s all but irrelevant to Enough – a slim book about fay and food, growg up gay 1970s England, fah and, y, mic, that persistently wriggl away om spotlights and superlativ, om exceptnalism or grand narrative of any kd.