Valerie Gay | Piano Lsons Sgapore

Contents:

• AFTER 58 YEARS, ’S LAST LL FOR THE CALIPH, ONE OF SAN DIEGO’S LONGT-NNG GAY BARS
• GAY PIANISTS: N YOU TELL?
• VALERIE GAY
• GAY PIANISTS: N YOU TELL?

AFTER 58 YEARS, ’S LAST LL FOR THE CALIPH, ONE OF SAN DIEGO’S LONGT-NNG GAY BARS

It seemed to me that she seemed offend by the ia that Schubert was homosexual, and was beg rather selective her choice of facts to unter his arguments. Whereas people like Tchaikovsky, om eastern Europe, were that b more "exotic", makg homosexualy/femy more acceptable. All the talk about the extent of Beethoven's e of perfect nc and the more prevalent e of variatn by Schubert simply adds up to nothg nclive and is not even all that accurate self - but even if were reasonably accurate, would still most certaly not provi evince of relative "masculy" the mic of the former or "femy" that of the don't actually say that you n hear through his mic that he was gay; what she says is that there's a "difference" thereWell, whoopty-doo!

I return aga to the qutn of the mic of known homosexual posers such as Szymanowski, Copland, Tippett, Brten, Rorem, Henze, etc. ; how n we tell om any aspect of the ways which they wrote their mic that they were (or, Rorem's and Henze's se, are) homosexuals?

GAY PIANISTS: N YOU TELL?

Would a homosexual poser's work fail to fluence that of a heterosexual one, or vice versa?

Then what of homosexual performers playg or sgg the mic of heterosexual posers and vice versa (a very difficult nsiratn when the "performer" is a symphony orchtra, given that we don't have orchtras exclively ma up of eher group)? After last ll, will shut s doors permanently — endg a historic, nearly 60-year n as one of San Diego’s most inic gay Caliph, wh s Moorish motif mixed wh dis lights, is known for s live piano entertament, karaoke, h poprn and, perhaps most importantly, s old-school neighborhood bar mise marks the end of an era.

VALERIE GAY

“When I bought the place, ” he said, “I always wanted to be all-clive — gay, straight, transgenr, young, old, men, women.

“Bars like The Caliph have been a place where people the gay muny uld be themselv — a place where you wouldn’t even be looked at twice.

GAY PIANISTS: N YOU TELL?

”More than that, though, The Caliph, for nearly six s, bore wns to the evolutn of the gay rights movement — s highs and s opened s doors 1960, seven years after Print Dwight D.