John Hilgeman 0:00 Good morning. This is John Hilgeman welcoming you to Lambda Reports, a program by and for the lesbian and gay community in the St. Louis area. As we close out the first year of the gay 90s, I want to thank the management of K-JOY for giving us the opportunity to present this program weekly. K-JOY was the first station in the St. Louis area years ago to offer air time to the lesbian and gay community. This is the second in a two part series featuring gay composers. This last week, one of the weekly news magazines had an article about Aaron Copeland in which they said he never married or had children, but his children were the composers that he was a mentor to. What the article overlooked was the fact that Aaron Copeland was gay. Our first selection is from Aaron Copeland's Rodeo. It is Buckaroo Holiday. Leonard Bernstein was a protege of Aaron Copland. We'll hear The Second Meditation in the Epistle from his Mass. Speaker 1 12:06 Brothers, this is the gospel I preach, and in its service, I have suffered hardship like a criminal. Yea, even unto imprisonment. But there is no imprisoning the Word of God. Speaker 2 12:21 Dearly Beloved. Do not be surprised if the world hates you. We who love our brothers have crossed over to life, but they who do not love abide in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, Speaker 3 12:38 Dear Mom and Dad. Nothing will make me change my mind. Do not feel badly or worry about me. Try to understand I am now a man. Speaker 1 12:52 You can lock up a bold man. Go and lock up your bold men and hold men in tow. You can stifle adventure for a century or so. Some other hope before it's risen, watch it whizzing like a gourd. But you cannot imprison the Word of the Lord. Speaker 1 13:24 No, you cannot imprison the Word of the Lord. Speaker 4 13:37 For the Word was at the birth of the beginning. It made the heavens and the earth and set them spinning. And for several million years, between stood on our forums and fine ideas, Speaker 1 13:54 …… Unknown Speaker 14:27 they're never gonna struggle. The word of the Lord Speaker 5 14:29 Dear brothers, I think that God has made us apostles the most abject of mankind. We hunger and thirst. We are naked. We are roughly handled, and we have no fixed abode. They curse us and we bless them. They persecute us and be separate. They treat us like the scum of the earth, the dregs of humanity. To this very day, scum of the earth, the dregs of humanity to this very day, Speaker 4 15:13 Dear folks, Jim looked very well on my first visit. With his head clean shaven, he looked about 19 years old. He says the prison food is very good, cafeteria style. For the first few days, he's not allowed any books except his Bible and his briviary. We sat and talked about our marriage and about how we would grow through this. When I hugged him, he smelled so good, the smell of clean, plain soap. He smelled like a nun or like a child when you put him to bed. Speaker 1 15:45 Oh, you big men of marriage, oh, you big men of merit who ferret out flaws you rely on our compliance with your science and your laws. Find a freedom to demolish while you polish some award. But you cannot abolish the Word of the Lord in no you cannot abolish the Word of the Lord. Speaker 1 16:27 For the Word, the Word created mud and got it going. It filled our empty brains with blood and set it flowing and for 1000s, 1000s of regimes … fancy schemes. Speaker 1 16:46 So we wait in silent treason until reason is restored and we wait for the season of the Word of the Lord. We await the season of the Word of the Lord. Speaker 6 17:50 We wait. We wait for the word of the Lord. John Hilgeman 18:01 A recent ABC special, red hot and blue featured videos of some of Cole Porter's music. Cole Porter made no secret of being gay, and in many of his songs, there are inside references to his homosexuality. By the way, you might ask channel two why the program wasn't carried in St Louis, and you can ask ABC why they dropped the open the gay singers from the program. The program was an AIDS benefit, and I happened to be fortunate to be in Kansas City at the time, and saw the show there. The first song that we're going to play from Red, Hot, and Blue by Cole Porter is Don't Fence Me In sung by David Byrne. And it brings with it memories of the Western tradition of gay cowboys. The last song was particularly poignant. It is Every Time We Say Goodbye, sung by Annie Lennox. When I saw it, I was in Kansas City to see the AIDS Memorial Quilt and this particular song concluded the program of red hot and blue, and it brought back to me memories of the many people With aids that I have said goodbye to forever. David Byrne 19:32 Give me land, lots of land, under starry skies above. Don't fence me in. Let me ride throug the wide open country that I love. Don't fence me in. Let me be by myself in the evening breeze. Listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees. Send me off forever, but I ask you, please: Don't fence me in. Don't fence me in. Just turn me loose. Let me straddle my old saddle underneath the Western skies. On my cayuse let me wander over yonder 'til I see the mountains rise. I want to ride to the ridge where the West commences. Gaze at the moon until I lose my senses. I can't look at hobbles, and I can't stand fences. Don't fence me in. Don't fence me in. Give me land, lots of land, under starry skies above. Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love. Don't fence me in. Let me be by myself in the evening breeze, listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees, send me off forever, but I ask you, please. Don't fence me. Don't fence me in. Just let me loose, let me straddle my old saddle undern the Western skies. On my cayuse let me wander over yonder 'til I see the mountains rise. I want to ride through the ridge where the West commences. Gaze at the moon until I lose my senses. I can't look at hobbles, and I can't stand fences. Dont fence me in. Don't fence me in. Dont fence me in. Don't fence me in. Dont fence me in. Don't fence me in. Dont fence me in. Don't fence me in. Annie Lennox 23:14 Every time we say goodbye, I die a little. Every time we say goodbye, I wonder why a little.Why the gods above me, who must be in the know. Think so little of me, they allow you to go. When you're near, there's such an air of spring about it. I can hear a lark somewhere begin to sing about it. There's no love finer, but how strange the change from major to minor.Every time we say goodbye. I can hear a song somewhere and begin to sing about. There's no love finer, but how strange the change from major to minor.Every time we say goodbye. John Hilgeman 26:57 This is John Hilgeman for Lambda Reports. Have a Happy New Year and join us again in 1991. 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