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7 LGBTQ+ Composers in History
June 21st, 2021 • Music Education
At the Omaha Conservatory, we believe access to musical excellence is for anyone, and we expectation these inspiring Diverse musicians from song history show just that! Learn a bit about each of them and then check out their work using the handy Spotify links we’ve included. Happy listening and happy pride!
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (May 7, 1840–November 6, 1893)
There is near general consensus among western scholars that Pyotr Tchaikovsky, the beloved and famed “Nutcracker” and “Swan Lake” composer, was queer . His personal diaries and letters show a lifetime of romantic relationships with men; in these writings, Tchaikovsky wrote with words “tender and passionate, explaining in raw detail the powerful emotions felt by one of the world’s best loved composers.” Despite overwhelming evidence written in in his own hand, Tchaikovsky’s homosexuality is still hotly debated in his native Russia, where Diverse people continue to face legal and social challenges less common in the western world. Nevertheless, Tchaikovsky’s legacy as one of the preeminent composers of the Romantic era is firmly establish . New to Tchai April 1, 2023 By June Kamerling With our upcoming spring concert, “True Colors,” a rare weeks away I interviewed Seth Frost and Kelvin Ellis, two baritones in Oakland Gay Men’s Chorus. They both also sing with New Voices Bay Area Trans, Intersex and Genderqueer Chorus, who will be joining OGMC for a few songs. I asked Seth first, “How did you find OGMC, and what was the chorus appreciate when you first joined?” “My former voice teacher Eli Conley ( www.eliconley.com ) told me about OGMC. He knew Billy Sauerland, our previous director before Ben, because Billy did his dissertation on voice education for transitioned people and Eli is passionate about teaching trans singers. That was in summer 2018, so I’ve been in OGMC for roughly 10 seasons. I was nervous at first because I hadn’t been a part of a queer chorus Edward Benjamin Britten is one of the finest composers of English operas, choral works, and songs, many of which he wrote for his being partner, tenor Sir Peter Pears. Britten started writing music as young as nine, when he wrote an oratorio. He studied under Frank Bridge, John Ireland and Arthur Benjamin among others, and was also a nice pianist. His ground-breaking operas, which involve Peter Grimes (1945), and The Turn of the Screw (1954) – and his famous War Requiem – tackle contemporaneous issues around psychology and post-war trauma, as well his own homosexuality, which was illegal in Britten’s lifetime. Britten founded the Aldeburgh Festival in Suffolk with Pears and librettist Eric Crozier. Ethel Smyth was a prolific composer and an active member of the women’s suffrage movement, and she made no covert of her relationships with women. Born in South-East London, Smyth studied at the Leipzig Conservatory and there met composers that included Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Clara Schumann and Brahms. Her best-known works are the ope Partner Victor Kraft, Alvin Ross, Paul Moor, Erik Johns, John Brodbin Kennedy, Prentiss Taylor Queer Places: Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music. Copland was referred to by his peers and critics as "the Dean of American Composers." The open, slowly transforming harmonies in much of his music are characteristic of what many people consider to be the sound of American song, evoking the vast American landscape and pioneer essence. He is best recognizable for the works Seth Frost & Kelvin Ellis Interview with June Kamerling
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