Openly gay performg arts lears are still rare. So was a breath of h air to chat about g out and Cele Dn wh Yannick Nézet-Ségu and his partner.
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.
* gay orchestral conductors *
“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? 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).
ROLL ON THE GAY TIM US ORCHTRAS
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.
THE MET’S NEW MIC DIRECTOR IS THE FIRST TO BE OPENLY 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.
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. 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.
BLACK GAY NDUCTOR HEADS TO ATLANTA SYMPHONY
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?
WOMEN, GAYS, AND CLASSIL MIC
” 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.
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.
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.
THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR
San Francis’s Bay Area Rabow Symphony, also known by s rather thirst-quenchg abbreviatn BARS, was found 2008 as a non-prof anisatn wh the aim of “promotg and supportg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer intified micians and posers toward the goal of broad crossover appeal and excellence the performg arts. ” The orchtra is currently led by nductor Dawn Harms, and has performed at Davi Symphony Hall and Herbst Theatre among other top venu, cludg wh the San Francis Gay Men’s. The chos “ref homophobia, bullyg, and all forms of hate by boldly assertg the joy, diversy, strength, and pri of today’s youth, ” and has performed at award ceremoni, at the Lln Center, and wh Cyndi Lper, on her ‘Te Colors’ tour and her ‘Home For The Holidays’ ncert beneftg homels LGBTQ+.