Bernste letters - gifted, gay and loved by his wife | Rters

Contents:

• INSI LEONARD BERNSTE’S ‘SLOW CREEP TOWARD OVERT GAYNS’
• BERNSTE LETTERS - GIFTED, GAY AND LOVED BY HIS WIFE
• GLTER AND BE GAY: SEXUALY THE LIFE AND MIC OF LEONARD BERNSTE
• THE MET’S NEW MIC DIRECTOR IS THE FIRST TO BE OPENLY GAY
• GAY JEWISH STUNT'S ALLEGED NEO-NAZI MURRER FAC JUDGE
• DID BRIAN EPSTE’S GAYNS SHAPE HIS VISN OF THE BEATL’ POTENTIAL?

INSI LEONARD BERNSTE’S ‘SLOW CREEP TOWARD OVERT GAYNS’

Those gay romanc were particularly hard on his wife, Felicia Montealegre, a Chilean actrs of Jackie Kennedy-que elegance.

“You are a homosexual and may never change, ” she wrote him the year they wed, a letter her children found after her ath. Gradually, his libido revered — and wh gto, as he began what his dghter lls a “slow creep toward overt gayns.

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. Tchaikovsky was gay at a time when was illegal Rsia.

BERNSTE LETTERS - GIFTED, GAY AND LOVED BY HIS WIFE

He was believed to have been gay, movg circl Italy and London where same-sex sire was accepted.

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.

GLTER AND BE GAY: SEXUALY THE LIFE AND MIC OF LEONARD BERNSTE

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.

THE MET’S NEW MIC DIRECTOR IS THE FIRST TO BE OPENLY GAY

He was jt gay. Bernste, acrdg to his Wt Si Story llaborator Arthur Lrents, was “a gay man who got married. LONDON (Rters) - It may be one of the sadst but most lovg letters wrten by a woman to a man - Chilean actrs Felicia Montealegre tellg her future hband, nductor and poser Leonard Bernste, she knows he is homosexual but wants to marry him letter, which Montealegre says “you are a homosexual and you may never change”, is among hundreds a recent volume “The Letters of Leonard Bernste” eded by English mic scholar Nigel Simeone, who prevly wrote a book about Bernste’s famed Broadway mil “Wt Si Story” the volume of letters, 650 of them a book of almost that many pag, Simeone said he had sifted through some 10, 000 the U.

“Send: 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?

At the time of their marriage, she wrote to him, “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 pends on a certa sexual pattern, what n you do? 6 He was gay. He was mostly gay and totally out all he did.

GAY JEWISH STUNT'S ALLEGED NEO-NAZI MURRER FAC JUDGE

Is Carl Bernste Gay? The reason for the break-up of the relatnship was not a secret, as Bernste’s homosexual proclivi were undisputed and well documented.

And Bernste was worried that his homosexual activi would prevent him om landg a major nductg appotment.

DID BRIAN EPSTE’S GAYNS SHAPE HIS VISN OF THE BEATL’ POTENTIAL?

The uple married September 1951 wh the clear unrstandg that as long as Lenny did not embarrass Felicia publilly, he was ee to pursue his homosexual affairs. Send: 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 pends on a certa sexual pattern what n you do?

However, acrdg to his llaborators Wt Si Story, Bernste was simply “a gay man who got married. ” As was ctomary at that time, Bernste appeared a voted hband and father the public eye, while rryg on a promiscuo homosexual life behd the scen. It might have been a ctomary to hi behd a public fa, but Bernste certaly felt that his homosexualy was a curse.