Gay composers wrote serial music, too.(Correspondence)(Letter to the editor)

From: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide | Date: November 1, 2006 | Copyright information

To the Editor:

Your surmise concerning a gay sensibility in classical music was thought-provoking, but factual problems abound. Gay modernist composers include Pierre Boulez, the most "killer" serialist of all; the indeterminist John Cage; Henry Cowell, promulgator of the tone cluster; Hans Werner Henze, the superb eclectic; and many others.

Even among the composers you mentioned, Copland cultivated a severe twelve-tone method alongside his better-known style, and Britten employed that technique in his gayest opera, Death in Venice. Counterexamples of straight ...

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