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There’s a new vitality in the classical music scene—and it would simply not exist without the creativity and support of queer people.

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Illinois State University graduate Dennis Tobenski is a vocalist, composer, and owner of music publishing company NewMusicShelf. Tobenski recently helped to create and then publish the first anthology of music for trans and nonbinary voices, called "Anthology of New Music: Trans & Nonbinary Voices."

“Ghost Variations,” a chamber opera streaming in three pay-what-you-can screenings June 4 through 6 under the auspices of Thompson Street Opera, resists more than 150 years of tropes. Here, Robert Schumann’s struggle with mental illness isn’t shunted out of sight or caricatured into something malevolent; his hallucinations are sometimes frightening, sometimes darkly humorous, but always humanizing.