RE: [F_minor] Re: Cornelia Foss reveals all!!!

["Houpt, Fred" <fred.houpt@rbc.com>]

Beethoven had lovers, that much is pretty much accepted.  And he most likely used the ladies of the night as well.  Copeland and Rorem were gay? See how little I know......

And, lest we forget, Leonard Bernstein was bi.  Wasn't Gershwin gay?

Fred 

-----Original Message-----
From: paul wiener [mailto:pwiener@ms.cc.sunysb.edu] 
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 10:10 AM
To: Houpt, Fred; yuzu; f_minor@email.rutgers.edu
Subject: RE: [F_minor] Re: Cornelia Foss reveals all!!!

Opposite sex ? Copeland?  Ned Rorem?

Beethoven? (do prostitutes count?)



At 09:20 AM 8/27/2007, Houpt, Fred wrote:
>Hi all.  I have no problem with imagining Glenn having a love life, 
>even a sexually open one.  What I do have a problem imagining, is him 
>letting a lover touch, grasp or squeeze his hands.  Laugh as you will 
>at my innuendo, but that is the one thing I cannot see him allowing.  
>Platonic love? Nah, Glenn seemed way too passionate and in the arms of 
>a women I can just see him acting in a much more relaxed 
>way....physically.  But, we do not really know any of this for sure.
>
>It makes me think out loud on the topic of having sexual relations.
>Let's take a vote amongst ourselves.  Which famous composer never had 
>relations with the opposite sex?
>
>Brahms?  Nah, too many prostitutes all around his early days.
>Schubert? Ditto.
>Vivaldi? Don't know anything about his life really.
>
>
>Anyone else have any ideas?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Fred Houpt
>Toronto
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