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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
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Subject: Re: music and nazism
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Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 10:06:17 EDT
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OK, Gordon, here's the beginning of a list of composers who may've been
homosexual, so you can take preventive measures against AIDS transmission
(remember, avoid exchange of body fliuds):

	Francois Poulenc
	Henry Cowell (Ives' publisher/promoter, despite Ives' lack of
		      of gratitude: Ives & Ruggles were pronounced
		      homophobes)
	Maurice Ravel
	Anton Bruckner
	Gustav Mahler
	Franz Peter Schubert
	Robert Schumann
	Ludwig van Beethoven (nephew Karl his only true love?)
	Samuel Barber
	Antonio Vivaldi
	Georg Friedrich Handel

I could add a rather large number of living composers, some open
& some closeted, but I don't want to trigger the Vladimir Horowitz
syndrome & get sued.  So, Mr. Moffett, you'll just have to forego
listening to contemporary music unless the composer is defunct.

					Regards,
					Ron Rizzo