compositions
Bent
1997

Info

35′.
Music by Philip Glass.
Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers.
String Quartet portions of the score are published as “Suite from BENT for String Quartet”.

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Scores

Bent at Wise Music Classical

Synopsis

Max is gay and as such is sent to Dachau concentration camp under the Nazi regime. He tries to deny he is gay and gets a yellow label signifying a Jew instead of pink, branding a homosexual. In camp he falls in love with his fellow prisoner Horst, who wears his pink label with pride.

Related

RECORDINGS:
Tara Hugo Sings Philip Glass
Punishing Kiss on Decca

FILMS:
Bent by Sean Mathias