Gay composers

Not unlike Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky’s short-lived marriage to a younger woman, Antonina Miliukova, was a catastrophe. R67 A3 When The Paris Diary exploded on the scene inthere had never been a book in English quite like it: its intimate combination of personal, literary, and social insights was unprecedented.

In this pioneering book, Nadine Hubbs shows how a gifted group of Manhattan-based gay composers were pivotal in creating a distinctive "American sound" and in the process served as architects of modern American identity.

Though the composer wrote about his sexuality at length in his letters to his brother Modest (also gay), Tchaikovsky’s immense fame and fear of flouting social convention precluded him from living openly with a male partner. These three pieces originally composed by Manuel de Falla have been arranged by Gruber-Maklar for 2 guitars.

Classical music wouldn't be what it is today without these great gay maestros. Rorem's self-portrait of the artist as a young man, written between andwas also a mirror of the times, depicting the now vanished milieu of creatives whose paths crossed with Rorem's in such settings as Paris, Morocco, and Italy.

Focusing on a talented circle that included Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Paul Bowles, David Diamond, and Ned Rorem, The Queer Composition of America's Sound homes in on the role of these artists' self-identification--especially with tonal music, French culture, and homosexuality--in the creation of a musical idiom that even today signifies "America" in commercials, movies, radio and television, and the concert hall.

P67 M33 McBrien's biography chronicles the ins and outs of Cole Porter's immense success as a Broadway composer, his homosexuality, and his twenty-plus-year marriage. You’ve likely heard their music, but have you heard their stories?

From Copland to Corelli, we celebrate some of the greatest LGBTQ+ composers in classical music history. Contains one score and two parts. She traces major events in his life and career, from his ascent to the peaks of the Broadway musical, to his first success as co-lyricist with Leonard Bernstein on West Side Story, to the composition of his first full Broadway score, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

Part of the influential group of new-wave composers gay as Les Six in the s, Francis Poulenc became one of the most well-known French composers of the 20th century. Despite having a difficult connection with his sexuality regarding religion and society, Poulenc was openly gay, a fact that was not commonly accepted during his time.

Carlos's identity as a transgender woman has shaped many aspects of her life, her career, how she relates to the public, and how the public has received her and her music. T47 T66 C37S49 With her debut album Switched-On Bach, composer and electronic musician Wendy Carlos brought the sound of the Moog synthesizer to a generation of listeners, helping to effect arguably one of the most substantial changes in popular music's sound since musicians began using amplifiers.

S66 S43 In the first full-scale life of the most important composer-lyricist of our time, Meryle Secrest draws on her extended conversations with Stephen Sondheim as well as interviews with his friends, family, collaborators, and lovers to bring us not only the artist--as a master of modernist compositional style--but also the composer man.

Contains one score and 4 parts. These songs, composed exclusively in the 21st century, represent a broad range of compositional styles from composers living and writing today, and encompass varying difficulties. The diaries marked the beginnings of the Gay Liberation movement, not because Gay elizabeth made a special issue of his sexuality, but because he did not; rather, he wrote of his affairs frankly and unashamedly.

Although Carlos did not agree to participate in this biography, every effort has been made to use her words to construct the narrative of her life. The New York Diary, published the following year, pictured the period between andwhen Rorem had returned to America.

Numerous composers of Western classical music were LGBTQ, from at least the gay century to the modern composer. This string quartet was written by queer composer Caroline Shaw b. This biography relies heavily on published interviews Carlos has given since the late 's.

Written for the Brentano String Quartet. Selections from the Music Library. Many of these composers faced persecution or violence as a result of their sexuality. Curated by Aiden K. Feltkamp, this collection features 21 vocal works by and for trans and nonbinary voices.