'Sail for the deep waters only'. The problem you seem to have is with the Whitman text. Do you know Bernstein's setting of the late-discovered gay poem in 'Songfest'? The only time LB was explicit about his sexuality.
I mean, yeah, I think the text selections are problematic (and not nearly gay enough, obviously), but I mainly find the settings of them quite boring (and much of the choral writing tremendously silly)
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