Klarinet Archive - Posting 000096.txt from 1998/08

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Classical vs. Popular
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 20:06:01 -0400

>>A lot of people today are sensitive to swearing and that's ok...but a
>century ago,
>>homosexuality was completly unheard of. Today, they hold festivals and
>>parade in the streets! And that's accepted.
>
>I wouldn't say it is accepted, but I think the situation has gotten better.

Unheard of 100 years ago? Uh...Oscar Wilde (d. 1900)? Pyotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky (d. 1893)? I don't think it was unheard of, it was just not as
acceptable as it is nowadays.

Ken <straight to a fault, just ask my ex-wife>:-)

"The East River. But it was not a river at all. Merely a column of water
connecting the upper harbor to the Sound. Yet everyone called it a river.
They chose not to think about it. They clung to the surface of things."
--Peter Quinn, "Banished Children of Eve"
Ken Wolman kwolman@-----.com/SoHo/Gallery/1649

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