Wendy Carlos by Amanda Sewell

Author:Amanda Sewell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Bell wrote Elkind a note, calling her behavior “neurotic” and “abominable.” He even appears to have threatened her, writing, “You should be sending me roses, considering what I could have done to you. And I would have, if it weren’t for the fact that both Elly [Stone] and Wendy think the world of you. Remember, you called me into this.”23 It isn’t clear what information Bell was referring to, or whether that information had to do with Elkind herself or with Carlos. Regardless, tensions between Carlos and Elkind were clearly building.

With regard to the two women’s mutual concerns about how Carlos would be able to cope if Elkind ever married and moved out of their shared home, it turns out that neither of them needed to have been worried. Just as Elkind was forming a new partnership, Carlos met someone new as well. In April of 1979, right about the same time that Rachel Elkind and Yves Tourré were wed and the Playboy interview was published, a mutual friend introduced Carlos to a woman named Annemarie Franklin.24 By the end of that same calendar year, Franklin had moved in with Carlos.25

Elkind has said that, in addition to serving as Carlos’s producer and artistic partner, she also functioned as a sort of “lawyer-negotiator” for Carlos during the decade of the 1970s.26 Elkind handled all of the legal and business aspects of Carlos’s music.27 Further, Elkind was not only juggling these various professional dimensions of Carlos’s life but also working to hide her friend’s gender identity from public knowledge in order to protect Carlos’s career and well-being.28 As Elkind’s presence faded from Carlos’s life and Annemarie Franklin came in, Franklin began assuming many of the roles for Carlos that Elkind had previously held.29 Indeed, Franklin would even become Carlos’s literal lawyer in the coming years, passing the bar in the early 1990s.30 Franklin would also become a prolific advocate for Carlos’s music, copyright, and artistic status, doing everything from filing copyright infringement complaints to writing letters to the editors of various publications on Carlos’s behalf.31 For a period of time in 1979, it seems that both Elkind and Franklin were an active part of Carlos’s life, but ultimately there wouldn’t be room for all three of them in the long term.32

Franklin’s presence was a major source of tension during the final months of Elkind and Carlos’s friendship. Elkind recalled thinking that it seemed as if Carlos expected Franklin to step into Elkind’s shoes, both personally and professionally.33 Elkind has said any conversation she and Carlos tried to have about any music during this period also had to involve Franklin, but Franklin didn’t have the same kind of musical training or background that Elkind did.34 Elkind recalled thinking, “I just don’t have the strength for two people,” and she eventually bowed out of the professional collaborations entirely.35

They were also growing apart professionally. By 1979, Elkind was itching to get back to producing acoustic music. She told an interviewer that although she’d had a

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