Partner Marc Blitzstein
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Calverton National Cemetery
Calverton, Suffolk County, New York, USA
William Buhrman Hewitt (April 15, 1920 – October 6, 1990) was an American Technical Sergeant and a Ninth Air Force radio gunner on a Marauder. He was born in Martinsburg, Berkeley, West Virginia, on 15 Apr 1920.
For a time in the late 1940s Marc Blitzstein openly introduced his lover, William Hewitt, whom Blitzstein had met in London during the World War Second. They lived together for about two years. They spent the summer of 1945 at the home Jo and Ed Davis had purchased the previous year in Pennsylvania's Brandywine Valley at Chadds Ford, residing below the main house in a stone spring cottage that they painted pink and black. In the fall of 1946, they took an apartment at 134 West 4th Street, New York, and spent part of that winter at the estate of Motty and Bess Eitingon in Greenwich, Connecticut, where Blitzstein completed the Airborne Symphony. In 1946, the two moved into a modest studio apartment at 4 East 12th Street, New York, that would serve Blitzstein as home for the rest of his life, and that was equipped with a galley kitchen, bath, terrace, and large multipurpose room where the composer kept his bed, piano, and work-table. He and Hewitt summered in 1946 at the guest cottage of Mina Curtiss in Ashfield, Massachusetts, and in 1947 at the country house of writer Donald Ogden Stewart and his wife Ella Winter Stewart in Upper Jay in New York's Adirondack Moantains, near the home of artist and writer Rockwell Kent—asocial circle bound by communist sympathies.
Blitzstein and Hewitt presumably maintained some romantic involvement throughout this time, although they were never monogamous: Blitzstein continued to cruise trysting places, while Hewitt maintained his relationship with Luellen Bowles, whom he will marry in 1949. In the fall of 1946, Hewitt took a job as a cutter in Motty Eitingon's fur business, but that did not last. When Hewitt returned with Blitzstein to New York in the fall of 1947, he moved out on his own. For a short while, Hewitt roomed with Blitzstein's nephew Christopher Davis. David Diamond observed Hewitt's flirtatiousness with Leonard Bernstein and himself.
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