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Gay American Composers

Facts

StudioComposers Recordings
Release DateMay 21, 1996
UPC Code090438072120
 

Tracks

  1. Hommage À Rachmaninoff
  2. I Was There - Hoiby, Lee
  3. Variations
  4. Estampe
  5. Incitation to Desire (Tango), For Piano - Biscardi, Chester
  6. The Dance
  7. Nantucket
  8. Go, Lovely Rose
  9. The Dancer
  10. 1. Adagio
  11. 2. Poco Allegretto
  12. 3. Allegro Minacciando (... Diabolique)
  13. 4. Largo
  14. Desire-Movement
  15. In the Department of Love
  16. Bass Trombone, Bass Clarinet, Harp - Hibbard, William Al
  17. Transform (Stream)/Cantegral Segment 17, 18/TR - Hunt, Jerry
  18. Serenade for Betty Freeman and Franco Assetto For - Harrison, Lou
  19. Walt Whitman in 1989 - Blasio, Chris de
  20. Hommage À Fauré

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User Reviews

Average user review: 5.0 (3 reviews)

rating: 5 QuoteNever mind the gay, just enjoy the musicQuote
If you are dubious about the "gayness" of this music, no worries! So are most of the composers on this disc. Strangely, despite the premise of the collection, in the liner notes most deny their music is "gay," even if their lives are. Aside from the Whitman texts and a few other hints, you would be hard pressed to hear anything here but beautiful 20th cen. American music. And it is a beautiful selection, nice especially for the inclusion of lesser known young composers along with Rorem and Harrison. January 17, 2005

rating: 5 Quote20th Century Composers OUT on the TownQuote

...Of the composers of note during the last 100 years or so (here in America) the vast majority of them are/were gay. This disc, with it's companion Volume 2 are a way to step into the gay sensibility a bit...

Well, I defy anyone to listen to Walt Whitman in 1989, by the late Chris De Blasio and have them tell me that isn't the heart-rendering cry of a gay man for his dying generation.

I don't want to give the impression that this disc is a downer. It isn't. But it is defiantly gay. Painfully beautiful, and at times downright challenging. Buy it. Stick it in you drive, and luxuriate in the fabulousness (and I don't use the "F" word lightly). September 25, 2002

rating: 5 QuoteArt at its best!!Quote
Absolutely wonderful music! I recommend this recording highly! The most moving works represented were provided by Philadelphia composer Robert Maggio and New Yorker Lee Hoiby. June 6, 2001

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