DAVID DEL TREDICI FILM VIEWING

A film by Daniel Beliavsky

(Suitable for mature audiences, 18+)

EMPAC THEATRE | 10:00PM

Daniel Beliavsky's film, Secret Music, follows Pulitzer prize winning American composer David Del Tredici through his transformative and uninhibited commitment to writing what he calls "gay music," a repertoire that celebrates the joys and honors the struggles of his life as a gay man.

Secret Music is a documentary film about Pulitzer prize winning composer David Del Tredici and the historical and cultural significance of his music within and outside the gay community. The film investigates the sometimes ineffable processes that are fundamental to music composition, performance, and the communication of meaning through art. Highlighting the nuanced challenges of private sexual identity projected outward into art, Secret Music examines Del Tredici’s personal transformations through the joys and sorrows of gay life, and his goal of communicating sexuality through music that is influential in modern culture.