Today In Gay History
May 7, 1840 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky is born in Votinsk, Russia.
Assailed by many modern critics as better suited to writing for film
than creating serious music, A popular conspiracy theory has it that he
was forced to commit suicide by authorities because he was gay. Hardly
likely, under Tsarist Russia, homosexuality was tolerated, though
hardly condoned.
Well, "many modern critics" are the numbskulls responsible for the utter disconnect between 'classical music' listeners' hearts & emotions (melody!) and their brains/intellects (which are supposed to wholeheartedly embrace atonal crap fit only for the less than 1% who'd possibly appreciate it!)
ReplyDeleteThese same critics would shame any composer who'd dare write any music 'people' would like!
Film music? There's a show on at 11am Sat on our classical music station that features 1 hr of film music. None of it comes 1000 miles near Tchaikovsky's genius!
Bless Tchaikovsky! Thank God he lived!
Yes, he just MIGHT have been forced to commit suicide; things were more complicated back then in Tsarist Russia than you might think.