A betifully illtrated children's book lled The Pengrooms lnch this week and we have the talented thor our hoe! While this may seem a fun but most acplishment, is much more. First of all, the book is a bold pictn of a gay uple and our current polil environment, that uld lead as much to a bonfire as uld a library shelf. More urago however, is the fat that the credible talent behd the book, Pl Castle, is almost pletely bld. Today we talk to Pl along wh his hband Matthew Olshefski. Matthew is famoly known as the "Shirtls Vlist." The uple have a huge onle prence where they display their art, their talents, their love, their relatnship and more. Wh -host Brody Levque
Contents:
- AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY, A RSIAN VLIST'S NEW REALY
- HOW I TOLD RSIA I WAS GAY
- IN CHIGO, GAY RSIAN VLIST FDS EEDOM, FAY
- AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY, A RSIAN VLIST'S NEW REALY
AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY, A RSIAN VLIST'S NEW REALY
Though Artem Kolov, a Rsian vlist, realized he was gay at age five, took him another 18 years before he me out to his fay, iends and, ultimately, the world. * violinist 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.
HOW I TOLD RSIA I WAS GAY
Mary Schmich: One day this sprg, Artem Kolov set up a vio mera the Chigo townhoe where he liv, sat down a chair and started talkg to the young gay people of Rsia. * violinist gay *
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.
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.
IN CHIGO, GAY RSIAN VLIST FDS EEDOM, FAY
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.
AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY, A RSIAN VLIST'S NEW REALY
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.