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Hi all! How& #39;s everybody doing tonight?
Let& #39;s talk a bit about music & your favorite queer artists. I& #39;m sure your tastes are way more updated than mine. I want to share a story of how validated I felt years ago when I was a teenager when I found one of favorite classical music composers was a homosexual.
It was circa 1993-97, I was schooling in Ipoh at that time and the library had a lot of old books. At that time I just developed an interest in classical music even though I couldn& #39;t play any instruments (still don& #39;t). I was listening to a lot of baroque music, then classical
, then romantic...at about the same time that I noticed sexual attractions towards women. I recalled looking for psychiatry books in the big library in Ipoh just to read abt homosexuality & lesbianism https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ" title="Loudly crying face" aria-label="Emoji: Loudly crying face"> Sadly no representation at that time
I recalled reading autobiographies of Robert Schumann, and learnt about bipolar disorder, he died in 1856, wrote absolutely beautiful music. Check out https://youtu.be/2QT9SkPiBNo ">https://youtu.be/2QT9SkPiB...
Brahms (who fell in love with Schumann& #39;s wife), Mozart (who& #39;s a workaholic), Beethoven (who get friendzoned all the time), Schubert (who died too young), Mendelssohn (like he& #39;s got something going on w his sister),
until I arrived to Tchaikovsky - the guy who wrote The 1812 Overture (and many beautiful ballet works, think The Swan Lake). When I first read abt him writers sheepishly write abt how he tried to kill himself after getting married to a woman. https://youtu.be/VbxgYlcNxE8 ">https://youtu.be/VbxgYlcNx...
I was 16 & still didn& #39;t get it, when I read in another book that he was a homosexual & was extremely tortured about having to marry a woman. This was in 1877. I felt affirmed that if I& #39;m a lesbian I& #39;m not a mistake, bc someone who lived 120 years ago felt the same way.
I got into a habit of reading abt historical figures who are rumoured to be queer, bc I find it affirming that this is something that has occurred throughout history, as much as it is maligned by Abrahamic religions & colonization. We are here & we will continue to be here.
Recently I was exploring legendary pianists from the 50s & 60s that I learnt about Sviatoslav Richter, who played among the unsurpassed interpretations of Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor https://youtu.be/uT_ZhhQeudY ">https://youtu.be/uT_ZhhQeu...
He too was a homosexual, a fact that he hides from the public. So was the famous conductor Leonard Bernstein. I& #39;m sure it was hard for them to be open about this (they weren& #39;t) as the classical music world seems very conservative & traditional. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/17/leonard-bernstein-japanese-love-letters-hashimoto">https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp...
What I love is, I see queer people everywhere, way back in history until today & we are in every area in life imaginable & that& #39;s super affirming. Once upon a time I have to find reasons to justify my existence, but reading abt fellow queers lets me know it& #39;s okay being who I am.
Folks you are such lovely people for layan-ing me on a really yawn topic that is classical music bc almost nobody ever layan me on this. Thank you so much https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ€" title="Hugging face" aria-label="Emoji: Hugging face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ€" title="Hugging face" aria-label="Emoji: Hugging face">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ€" title="Hugging face" aria-label="Emoji: Hugging face">
Also do share your affirming music/ artists I& #39;d love to hear your selection!
