![]() ![]() If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? (1977).Mid America Freedom Band (Kansas City, Mo.) (Lee Hartman, conductor) – 29 October 2017.To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project Video: Max Canaday, Michael Century, Catherine Chou, André Watson, pianos – 18 November 2009.Compact Disc: Julius Eastman: Unjust Malaise – 2005.Reflecting on this historical moment, Parker Woods points out that 1979 was just before "all hell broke loose" for the gay community, so that the precarious questions of "who could say what" and "who could come out" were newly fraught and unsettled. Though Eastman's piece is instrumental, the original hymn includes the lines "And though this world, with devils filled / Should threaten to undo us / We will not fear, for God hath willed / His truth to triumph through us."Įastman wrote Gay Guerrilla in 1979, ten years after the Stonewall riots and on the cusp of the devastating AIDS epidemic, as musicologist Luciano Chessa noted in his contribution to the book of the same name. Over the course of 20 minutes it builds to a booming, brazen musical quotation of the Lutheran hymn Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott (A Mighty Fortress Is Our God). So therefore that is the reason that I use 'gay guerrilla,' in hopes that I might be one if called upon to be one.Ĭomposed for any number of identical instruments but most often performed on four pianos (as it was at Northwestern), Gay Guerrilla begins slowly and somberly - "like bells tolling," as concert curator Seth Parker Woods describes it. And you know if there is a cause, and if it is a great cause, those who belong to that cause will sacrifice their blood because without blood there is no cause. A guerrilla is someone who in any case is sacrificing his life for a point of view. And in the case of 'guerrilla,' that glorifies 'gay.'. ![]() These names, either I glorify them or they glorify me. When Eastman premiered Gay Guerrilla at his January 1980 Northwestern concert, he explained its title as well: Open Score (all performers read from score) Original Medium: Open score, most commonly four pianos Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation) ![]()
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