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| | Gay American Composers | | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Composers Recordings | | Release Date : | | 1996-05-21 | | Store Price : | | $18.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $18.98 | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Homages (3) For Piano: Hommage à Rachmaninoff
2. I Was There
3. String Quartet Set: Variations
4. String Quartet Set: Estampe
5. Incitation to Desire (Tango), For Piano
6. Nantucket Songs, Song Cycle for Voice & Piano: The Dance
7. Nantucket Songs, Song Cycle for Voice & Piano: Nantucket
8. Nantucket Songs, Song Cycle for Voice & Piano: Go, Lovely Rose
9. Nantucket Songs, Song Cycle for Voice & Piano: The Dancer
10. Fantasy Pieces, For Piano: I - Adagio
11. Fantasy Pieces, For Piano: II - Poco Allegretto
12. Fantasy Pieces, For Piano: III - Allegro Minacciando
13. Fantasy Pieces, For Piano: IV - Largo
14. Two Quartets (Desire, Movement, Love, Stillness),: Desire-Movement
15. In the Department of Love: In the Department of Love
16. Bass Trombone, Bass Clarinet, Harp
17. Transform (Stream)/Cantegral Segment 17, 18/TR
18. Serenade for Betty Freeman and Franco Assetto For
19. Walt Whitman in 1989
20. Homages (3) For Piano: Hommage à Fauré
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Never mind the gay, just enjoy the music
Submitted on: 2005-01-17 |
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| 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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20th Century Composers OUT on the Town
Submitted on: 2002-09-25 |
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...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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Art at its best!!
Submitted on: 2001-06-06 |
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| 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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