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Kate Getty
What do the composers Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Samuel Barber, and Leonard Bernstein all have in common?
They all think it’s pretty stuffy in the glass closet that continues to be perpetuated by historians so afraid to mention the unmentionable.
They were queer. (And brilliant.)
This article appears in March 23 • 2007.
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