Sunday, May 22, 2005
Steeped in gayness.
Samuel Barber. Leonard Bernstein. Pierre Boulez. Benjamin Britten. John Cage. Aaron Copland. Henry Cowell. Harry Partch. Cole Porter. Francis Poulenc. Alexander Scriabin. Stephen Sondheim. Each one of them gay or bisexual. Apparently the exception rather than the rule among twentieth-century composers.
