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| Gay American Composers | 
 enlarge | Creators: Larry Adams, Michael Dash, Peter Stewart, Daryl Goldberg, Fred Sherry, Joan Jeanrenaud, Jonathan Spitz, Charles West, Chester Biscardi, Chris De Blasio, Conrad Cummings, David Del Tredici, Lou Harrison, Robert Helps, William Alden Hibbard, Lee Hoiby, Jerry Hunt, Robert Maggio, Ned Rorem, Bradley Lubman
Label: Composers Recordings
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 188052
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
UPC: 090438072120
EAN: 0090438072120
ASIN: B000005TY0
Release Date: May 21, 1996
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| Tracks:
| • | Homage A Rachmaninoff | | • | Five Songs On Poems Of Walt Whitman: I Was There | | • | Variations | | • | Estampe | | • | Incitation To Desire: Tango | | • | The Nantucket Songs: The Dance | | • | The Nantucket Songs: Nantucket | | • | The Nantucket Songs: Go, Lovely Rose | | • | The Nantucket Songs: The Dancer | | • | Fantasy Pieces: I. Adagio | | • | Fantasy Pieces: II. Poco Allegretto | | • | Fantasy Pieces: III. Allegro Minacciando (...Diabolique) | | • | Fantasy Pieces: IV. Largo | | • | Two Quartets: Desire-Movement | | • | In The Department Of Love | | • | Bass Trombone, Bass Clarinet, Harp | | • | Transform (Stream): Transform (Stream) (Excerpt) | | • | Serenade For Betty Freeman & Franco Assetto | | • | Walt Whitman In 1989 | | • | Hommage a Faure |
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| Customer Reviews:
Never mind the gay, just enjoy the music January 18, 2005
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
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.
20th Century Composers OUT on the Town September 26, 2002
8 out of 15 found this review helpful
...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).
Art at its best!! June 6, 2001
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
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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