Principal teachers:
Robert Shaw, Roger Wagner and Paul Salamunovich (conducting)
David Rarsin, Leroy Southers and Carolyn Shannon (composition and film scoring)

Co-Founder/Artistic Director, City Swing (1984-93)
Composer/Arranger-in-Residence, San Francisco Band Foundation (1984-92)
Musical Director/Arranger, Men Behind Bars (1984-90)
Member/Conductor, San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band (1987 and 1989)
Artistic Director/Arranger, Vocal Minority (1990-95)
Member/Arranger, Great American Yankee Freedom Band of Los Angeles (ca. 1979-83)
Member, Union Station Swing Band
Member/Arranger, San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus (1994-95)

Wayne Love contributed his irrepressible energy, and his multifarious talents as composer, arranger, conductor, keyboardist, vocalist and percussionist, to many gay bands and vocal groups in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

He was a longtime member of City Swing, an 18-piece big band based in San Francisco. An offshoot of the Gay Freedom Day Marching Band, the group was founded in 1984 by Bradley Connlain, Jim French, Jim Hornsby and Jim Jensen. Love joined shortly thereafter and served over the years as pianist, arranger, musical director and conductor. City Swing performed at The Mirrored Ball, Mayor Agnos' Inaugural Ball, the Dore and Folsom Street Fairs, and numerous private, political and fundraising concerts and dance dates. The group appeared regularly in the annual San Francisco AIDS fundraiser Men Behind Bars and won two Cable Car Awards, including the coveted Entertainer of the Year Award. City Swing is still in existence, under the direction of Bradley Connlain.

Love served as musical director and arranger for Men Behind Bars in 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988 and 1990. This popular AIDS fundraising event was created and first produced in 1984 by two San Francisco bartenders and gifted performers, Jim Cvitanich and Mark Abramson. The shows featured a cast of local bartenders and other members of the gay community, with City Swing as the pit band. Over the ten years of its existence, Men Behind Bars contributed thousands of dollars to local AIDS charities in San Francisco.

Love was also composer/arranger-in-residence with the San Francisco Band Foundation for a number of seasons, and was closely associated with the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Marching Band and Twirling Corps, founded in 1978 by Jon Reed Sims, who also founded the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus. In 1989 the band voted to adopt names to fit the different events at which it performed — San Francisco Winds of Freedom for concerts, San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band for parades, and San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Spirit Band for small community events.

Love was a longtime member of the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band, and served as its conductor in 1987 and 1989. The group performed and recorded his original pieces Marche Militaire No. 2: Excalibur and Marche Militaire No. 3 and many of his arrangements, including Anything Goes, I Am What I Am, Santa Baby and Jean Fineberg's Water Sounds. Homophonics, a medley of gay-related songs, was premiered at a Lesbian and Gay Bands of America concert in San Diego in 1988. By George!, his arrangement of Gershwin songs for solo piano and concert band, was premiered by pianist Dick Hollenbaugh, with a massed band of 250+ musicians from Lesbian and Gay Bands of America, at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco as part of the 1986 Gay Games Cultural Festival.

Several of Love's arrangements were premiered by the San Francisco Winds of Freedom under the direction of Nancy Corporon: Empty Chairs At Empty Tables; his version of I Am What I Am for two vocalists and concert band; Sinfonietta For Concert Band Based On A Whole Lot Of Other People's Music (And Some Of My Own), also known as LGBA In A Cuisinart; and Jean Fineberg's Easy Street.

For several years Love performed with and sometimes conducted the Great American Yankee Freedom Band of Los Angeles, founded in 1978. The band played his composition La Vie Belle, and presented his arrangement of I Sing The Body Electric in joint concerts with the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles and the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus. He was also a member of Union Station, the swing band offshoot of the Great American Yankee Freedom Band.

From about 1990 until his death in 1995, Love worked as artistic director and arranger for Vocal Minority, a 15-member vocal group founded by Bill Ganz in San Francisco in 1980. His arrangements for this group included On The Street Where We Live: A Tribute to Alan Jay Lerner.

He also arranged music for the San Francisco Tap Troupe.

Love's last work is thought to be Christmas at Court, an extended arrangement for men's chorus and small orchestra commissioned for the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus by its artistic director, Dr. Stan Hill. The group premiered Christmas at Court in San Francisco in 1995 and recorded two excerpts on Our Gay Apparel.

He also worked with Reverend Glenda Hope, a Presbyterian minister who founded San Francisco Network Ministries in the Tenderloin district, as choir director at Seventh Avenue Presbyterian Church where Reverend Hope was the pastor. She conducted memorial services for homeless people and others who had no one else to remember them, and Love did the music for some of the services.

According to Trilla Jentzsch, an administrator with San Francisco Network Ministries, "Wayne was a great dancer!"

Wayne Love died of AIDS in San Francisco at the age of 41 on July 8, 1995.

—Nurit Tilles

WORKS:

COMPOSITIONS

Being to Timelessness
for: SATB and keyboard
date: 199?
text: e.e. cummings
source: Linda Love

Finale — In Memory of Friends
for: vocal quartet (?), mixed chorus, piano, bass and percussion
date: 1988 (?)
note: "In memory of Robert J. White (1953-1986."
A piece entitled Finale Ultimo — In Memory of Friends is mentioned in Love's bio in 6/18/88 program for San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Marching Band & Twirling Corps. Same piece, or a version for band?
source (vocal version): Linda Love
source (band version?): San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band

La Vie Belle
for: band
date: ?
note: composed for Great American Yankee Freedom Band of Los Angeles
source: Great American Yankee Freedom Band of Los Angeles

Marche Militaire No. 2: Excalibur
for: band
date: ?
duration: 4:19
recorded: San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band, If They Could See Us Now (1998)
source: San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band

Marche Militaire No. 3
for: band
date: ?
note: for San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band; probably composed for Jon Sims

One More Walk Around The Garden
for: vocal trio (TTB)
date: ?
source: Linda Love

ARRANGEMENTS

CONCERT BAND/MARCHING BAND

Anything Goes (Cole Porter)
duration: 3:17
recorded: San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band, If They Could See Us Now (1998)
source: San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band (partial set of parts)

By George!
Songs by George Gershwin
for: solo piano and concert band
date: 1986
premiere: Lesbian and Gay Bands of America, Dick Hollenbaugh, piano, Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, August 1986 (Gay Games Cultural Festival)
source: Great American Yankee Freedom Band of Los Angeles; San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band

Christmas at Court (Book II)
    An All-American Christmas
        I: An Old-Fashioned Christmas
        II: Christmas Is For Children
    Christmas On Broadway
(title of third piece?)
for: men's chorus and small orchestra
date: 1995
note: Commissioned by San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, Dr. Stan Hill, Artistic Director
premiere: San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, First Congregational Church, San Francisco 1995
recorded ("An Old-Fashioned Christmas" and "Christmas Is For Children"): San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band and San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, Our Gay Apparel (1995)
source: San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band (set of parts)

Easy Street
Music by Jean Fineberg (1979)
for: concert band
date: 1990
note: "Easy Street is a rollicking shuffle that sounds like a regular blues shuffle but actually has a different form and chord changes. This Wayne Love arrangement was premiered in April 1990 with the San Francisco Winds of Freedom." (program note by Nancy Corporon)
performed: Deuce with the San Francisco Winds of Freedom, Nancy Corporon, conductor, First Congregational Church, San Francisco 4/27/90; San Francisco Civic Auditorium, San Francisco 1992 ("Dreams: Toward the Next Rainbow")
source: San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band (parts)

Empty Chairs At Empty Tables
Music by Claude-Michel Schoenberg
Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil
for: two vocalists and concert band
date: 1986, arr. by Love 1992
duration: 7:52 (medley)
performed: Lisa Gray and Wayne Love, vocals, San Francisco Winds of Freedom, Nancy Corporon, conductor, San Francisco Civic Auditorium, San Francisco 1992 ("Dreams: Toward the Next Rainbow")
recorded (as medley with I Am What I Am): San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band, If They Could See Us Now (1998)
source: San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band

Homophonics
Medley of well-known and obscure songs with gay connection
for: band
date: ?
note: Arranged for Lesbian and Gay Bands of America
premiere: Lesbian and Gay Bands of America, San Diego, CA 1988
performed: San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Marching Band & Twirling Corps, Wayne Love, conductor, First Congregational Church, San Francisco 6/18/88
source: San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band

I Am What I Am
Music by Jerry Herman
Lyrics by Harvey Fierstein
for: two vocalists and concert band
date: 1984, arr. by Love 1992
performed: Lisa Gray and Wayne Love, vocals, San Francisco Winds of Freedom, Nancy Corporon, conductor, San Francisco Civic Auditorium, San Francisco 1992 ("Dreams: Toward the Next Rainbow")
recorded (as medley with Empty Chairs At Empty Tables): San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band, If They Could See Us Now (1998)

I Am What I Am (Herman/Fierstein)
for: marching band
date: 1984, arr. by Love 1985
note: Performed frequently by San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band
source: San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band

I Sing The Body Electric (Dean Pitchford/Michael Gore)
for: band and chorus
date: ?
performed: joint concert, Great American Yankee Freedom Band of Los Angeles and Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles (venue/date?); joint concert, San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band with San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, Gregg Tallman, conductor, First Congregational Church, San Francisco 6/18/88
note: Arranged for Great American Yankee Freedom Band of Los Angeles
source: Great American Yankee Freedom Band of Los Angeles; San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band

Joy To The World (G.F. Handel)
for: band
date: ?
note: Arranged for Great American Yankee Freedom Band of Los Angeles
source: Great American Yankee Freedom Band of Los Angeles

LGBA In A Cuisinart (medley)
for: concert band
date: 1992
note: Arranged for a conference of Lesbian and Gay Bands of America.
Also known as Sinfonietta For Concert Band Based On A Whole Lot Of Other People's Music (And Some Of My Own) (see listing below).
source: San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band

One Singular Sensation
for: chorus and band

Santa Baby (with many musical puns)
for: vocalist and big band
date: ?
premiered: Gail Wilson and City Swing, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco 12/98 (annual "Dance-Along Nutcracker")
performed: Gail Wilson and San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band, ca. 1998
note: Arranged for Gail Wilson and City Swing, also for San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band; re-scored by Jadine Louie
source: San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band

Sinfonietta For Concert Band Based On A Whole Lot Of Other People's Music (And Some Of My Own)
for: concert band
date: 1992
note: "Wayne Love's gift for arranging and composing has enriched the concerts of LGBA bands since his first extravaganza By George hit the music stands in 1986. I showed Wayne the long list of LGBA favorites I could not include on a concert shorter than 2 or 3 days, and charged him with the responsibility of making sure they were all represented in this, our 10th anniversary concert. Prepare to be surprised, delighted, duped and amazed." (program note by Nancy Corporon)
Also known as LGBA In A Cuisinart (see listing above).
premiere: San Francisco Winds of Freedom, Nancy Corporon, conductor, San Francisco Civic Auditorium, San Francisco 1992 ("Dreams: Toward the Next Rainbow")

Water Sounds
Music by Jean Fineberg (1979)
for: concert band
date: 1990
duration: 6:51
note: "Jean's 80 year old aunt designed and served as overall contractor for her new country house on a beautiful piece of land with brooks and a waterfall. She named the property Water Sounds, which became the inspiration for the writing of Jean's relaxing, reflective piece." (program note by Nancy Corporon)
performed: Deuce with the San Francisco Winds of Freedom, Nancy Corporon, conductor, First Congregational Church, San Francisco 4/27/90; San Francisco Civic Auditorium, San Francisco 1992 ("Dreams: Toward the Next Rainbow")
recorded: San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band, If They Could See Us Now (1998)
source: San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band

VOCAL/CHORAL

As Long As I Live
source: Linda Love

Brigadoon (vocal overture)
source: Linda Love

Carols for Midnight Mass for Christmas Eve, Part 2 (Marc Antoine Charpentier)
for: children's chorus and organ
date: 1978
note: arranged for Southern California Symphonic Chorale
source: Linda Love

Choral Introit (John McNair/Wayne Love)
note: not clear if arrangement or composition
source: Linda Love

Dance A Little Closer/On The Street Where You Live
for: vocals and piano
source: Linda Love

Economics
source: Linda Love

Gender Bender Medley
for: vocals and piano
note: well-known song titles woven together; appears to be part of a show
source: Linda Love

Hard Candy
for: TTBB
source: Linda Love

The House of Blue Light
for: chorus or vocal trio
source: Linda Love

I'm Thrilled
Music by Sidney Lippman
Lyrics by Sylvia Dee
Arranged by Bill Finegan, vocal arr. by Wayne Love
source: Linda Love

I Never Thought We'd Have To Say Goodbye
for: piano part only
source: Linda Love

On A Clear Day
source: Linda Love

On The Street Where We Live
source: Linda Love

Shiver Me Timbers
Music and lyrics by Tom Waits
source: Linda Love

Tribute to Sondheim
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Jules Styne and Leonard Bernstein
Arranged by Wayne Love
source: Linda Love

Twin Pinks Revue — Opening and Finale
for: vocals and piano
note: "for Vocal Minority, Jungle Red and Gail Wilson"
source: Linda Love

We Are What We Are
for: chorus
source: Linda Love

VOCALIST AND SWING BAND
For Gail Wilson and City Swing
Most of these arrangements are for vocalist and 16-piece band (5 saxes, 4 trombones, 4 trumpets, piano, bass and drums)

Ain't There Anyone Here For Love? (Men Behind Bars 4) (1988)
As Long As I Live
Beautiful Girls (Men Behind Bars 3) (1986)
Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered
Big Noise From Winnetka
Big City Blues
Big Spender
Black Coffee
Blow Gabriel Blow (Men Behind Bars 5) (1990)
Bosom Buddies (Men Behind Bars 5) (1990)
But Not For Me
The Christmas Song
The Connie Francis Story (Men Behind Bars 4) (1988)
Crazy
Desperado
Embraceable You
Fever
Find Me A Primitive Man
Fireman! (Men Behind Bars 3) (1986)
Gigi Medley
Goldfinger
Hanky Panky
Hard Candy Christmas
Hot Voodoo (Men Behind Bars 3) (1986)
House of Blue Lights
I Didn't Know What Time It Was
I Never Do Anything Twice
I Want A Lover
I Want To Be Evil
If He Walked Into My Life
If I Can't Sell It
It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
It Might As Well Be Spring
It's Today (Men Behind Bars 4) 1988)
Johnny One Note
Last Call
Losing My Mind
Misty
Nat King Cole Medley
The Nearness Of You
Old Fashioned Girl
Peel Me A Grape
Please Don't Monkey With Broadway
Poco Loco In The Coco
Razzle Dazzle (Men Behind Bars 4) (1988)
San Antonio Rose
San Francisco
Santa Baby
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
South Pacific Medley (Men Behind Bars 2) (1985)
Suppertime
Sweet Dreams
Tap Your Troubles Away
Tape Deck In His Tractor
Ten Cents A Dance
Tennessee Waltz
I Told Ya I Love Ya
Tuxedo Junction
Unforgettable
Wait Til You See Her
Walkin After Midnight
West Side Pussies Medley (Men Behind Bars 3) (1986)
You'll Never Walk Alone
You Go To My Head
You Gotta See Momma

UNCOMPLETED WORKS:
Unknown

WRITINGS:

DISCOGRAPHY:
"Marche Militaire No. 2: Excalibur," "Anything Goes," "Empty Chairs At Empty Tables," "I Am What I Am" and "Water Sounds," San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band, Nancy Corporon, artistic director, If They Could See Us Now, two-CD set (1998).
"An Old-Fashioned Christmas" and "Christmas Is For Children" from Christmas at Court, San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, Dr. Stan Hill, Artistic Director, Our Gay Apparel, San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus (1995).

VIDEOGRAPHY:
A documentary film about the history of the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Band is being made by Billy Green (director), Chip Hoover (video archivist) and Heidi Beeler (writer). Final version of film may include photographs and/or live footage of Love.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Unknown

PERFORMING RIGHTS AFFILIATION:
Unknown

RESOURCES:
If They Could See Us Now recording available from:
San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band
PMB 841, 584 Castro Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
(415) 255-1355
sflgfb@yahoo.com
www.sflgfb.org

Great American Yankee Freedom Band of Los Angeles
P. O. Box 46026
Los Angeles, CA 90046
(323) 667-BAND
gayfbla@aol.com
www.hometown.aol.com/gayfbla/myhomepage/

City Swing
www.jonsimsctr.org/cityswing.html

Our Gay Apparel recording available from:
San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus
Golden Gate Performing Arts
4053 18th Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
www.sfgmc.org

MUSICAL EXECUTOR:
Linda Love (sister)
3583 Woodhill Canyon Road
Studio City, CA 91604
(818) 762-1727
linda@eticketfilms.tv

OTHER CONTACTS:
Douglas A. Litwin (past president of Lesbian and Gay Bands of America)
514 Jersey Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
Tel/Fax: (415) 641-5211
Cell: (415) 577-9151
dlitwinsf@yahoo.com

Gail Wilson (vocalist with City Swing)
522-A Green Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
(415) 392-3791

James Rose (founding member of Great American Yankee Freedom Band and LGBA librarian)
15633 Horace St
Granada Hills, CA 91344-5431
(818) 366-3643
rose@socal.rr.com