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Contents:

• THE MET OPERA HAS A GAY CONDUCTOR. Y, THAT MATTERS.
• ROLL ON THE GAY TIM US ORCHTRAS
• THE MET’S NEW MIC DIRECTOR IS THE FIRST TO BE OPENLY GAY
• BLACK GAY NDUCTOR HEADS TO ATLANTA SYMPHONY
• WOMEN, GAYS, AND CLASSIL MIC
• THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR

THE MET OPERA HAS A GAY CONDUCTOR. Y, THAT MATTERS.

“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. 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?

ROLL ON THE GAY TIM US ORCHTRAS

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. 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.

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.

BLACK GAY NDUCTOR HEADS TO ATLANTA SYMPHONY

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’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.

WOMEN, GAYS, AND CLASSIL MIC

Yannick Nézet-Ségu, the new mic director of the Metropolan Opera, left, and his partner, the vlist Pierre Tourville, at the gay bar Juli’ Moon for The New York TimJan. But was an extraordary nversatn to be havg wh the mic director of the natn’s largt performg arts culture — particularly high culture — is libly associated wh gay tastemakers, dienc and creators, ’s a sign of how outmod our nceptn of thory is that remarkably few major performg arts lears have been openly gay. In classil mic and opera, even New York, the cy that gave rise to the morn gay rights movement wh the Stonewall rts 50 years ago this June, has been domated sce then by two nductors: Leonard Bernste and Jam Leve, who both kept sexual relatnships wh men chattg sually about g out, bullyg and Cele Dn wh Mr.

THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR

Dpe gay pneers like Michael Tilson Thomas (at the San Francis Symphony) and Mar Alsop ( Baltimore), nductg remas an overwhelmgly straight (and male, and whe) profsn. Nézet-Ségu — who has been openly gay for his entire profsnal reer and nonchalant enough about to post a sg partners’ beach selfie on Instagram — is impossible to miss. London Gay Symphony Orchtra was found 1996, and has grown om a group of iends to a full-sized symphony orchtra, performg at venu such as St John’s Smh Square, Cadogan Hall and the Southbank Centre on ocsn.