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Gay American Composers

Robert Helps , Ned Rorem , David Del Tredici , Conrad Cummings , Jerry Hunt , Robert Maggio , William Hibbard , Lou Harrison , Chris DeBlasio , Chester Biscardi Audio CD
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  • Composer: Robert Helps, Ned Rorem, David Del Tredici, Conrad Cummings, Jerry Hunt, et al.
  • Audio CD (May 21, 1996)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Composers Recordings
  • ASIN: B000005TY0
  • Also Available in: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #200,560 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

 

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Never mind the gay, just enjoy the music, January 17, 2005
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D. Watson (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gay American Composers (Audio CD)
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.
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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Art at its best!!, June 5, 2001
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This review is from: Gay American Composers (Audio CD)
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.
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13 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 20th Century Composers OUT on the Town, September 25, 2002
This review is from: Gay American Composers (Audio CD)

...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).

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